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TIL to comply with Chinese censorship, PUBG's distributor, Tencent, reskinned the game and rebranded it as "Game for Peace." Among the changes are the lack of gore and enemies cheerfully waving goodbye instead of dying.

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9Y8jM TIL that people sentenced to death by beheading were advised to give the headsman a gold coin to ensure he did not botch the beheading and cause a painful death by multiple strokes
lVEA TIL that there is a family in Florence that has been keeping records of all of their ledgers, bills and correspondences in a continuous archive since 1362.
kO41E TIL that the method of brewing tea is standardised under the ISO, and this was criticised by Ireland for not mentioning that the pot must be pre-warmed.
awd6Z TIL the Battles of Khalkin Gol increased IJA 'research' at Unit 731; suspicions of Soviet biowarfare led to the IJA implementing more epidemic prevention measures, formally researched by Ishii in Harbin
XEQnD TIL that there is a company attempting to heal aging and noise-related permanent hearing loss by utilizing the same regenerative properties naturally found in our intestines