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TIL the classic board game Risk was invented by Albert Lamorisse, an Academy Award-winning filmmaker.

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8aMJG TIL caffeine evolved independently in many plants. It's toxic in high doses to hungry insects, and caffeinated leaf litter can make soil toxic for other competing plants. Separately, pollinators receive a light "buzz" from caffeine in pollen, and are more likely to remember the flower's scent.
KONdB TIL Allvar Gullstrand applied the methods of physical mathematics to the study of optical images and refraction of light in the eye and received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1911. Due to the math in his works, it is lamented there are few ophthalmologists and physiologists who can understand it
MR7b TIL the son of film composer John Williams is a lead singer for the band Toto
9YWNM TIL that Backgammon has been around for over Five Thousand years, and only one other board game is older but the rules for it have been forgotten.
yQpJv TIL the company behind 5 Minute Crafts is run out of Cyprus by Russians