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TIL A German pro basketball team was relegated to a lower division due to a necessary 17-minute Windows update

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mxQMR TIL That the book 'Where the Wild Things Are' created controversy when it was first published because many parents and people thought that the wild things looked too scary for children
m1VZv TIL in 1991 Sacramento Kings rookie Lionel Simmons missed 2 games due to developing tendinitis in his right wrist and forearm due to playing too much Nintendo Game Boy
rR7b4 TIL the maze generation algorithm for the 1982 Atari game Entombed always makes solvable mazes just by looking at the 5 nearest tiles, and nobody understands why it works—it came upon a programmer when he was drunk
DQxYj TIL Duck is considered a red meat by culinary standards.
9Y79r TIL the upper atmosphere of Saturn’s (and other gas giants presumably) poles are heated by the massive Auroras happening there!