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TIL: "Coyote Time" is when game developers give players who walk off the edge of a cliff time before gravity kicks in to prevent rage quitting

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RX7Q TIL That in 2005, Fall Out Boy Tried to Release a Song About the Trappings of Fame Titled “I’m David Ruffin and These are the Temptations” Until Their Lawyers Intervened. The Song was Renamed “Our Lawyers Made Us Change the Name of This Song So We Wouldn’t Get Sued”
M91K TIL that as a revolutionary, Josef Stalin was arrested and exiled to Siberia 6 times. He escaped the first 5. So for his 6th, he was sent to a hamlet just south of the Arctic Circle where he lived as a hunter gatherer alongside an arctic tribe for 2 years
YpDdZ TIL a British mathematician William Shanks famously took 15 years to calculate π to 707 digits, but made a mistake in the 528th digit, rendering all subsequent digits incorrect.
amdZ TIL a Chinese man was so convinced he was Jesus’s younger brother that he started a war called The Taiping Rebellion that lasted 15 years and killed at least 10 million people.
wL7N8 TIL that during WW2, many of the spitfire planes used in the Battle of Britain were actually privately owned aircraft purchased by companies, clubs or individuals for £5,000.