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TIL that NBA Jam game designer Mark Turmell, a Detroit Pistons fan, hated the Chicago Bulls so much that 1993 NBA Jam game was actually rigged against the Chicago Bulls so that the Bulls would miss “clutch shots” and their stats would lower when playing the Pistons

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LkANr TIL about survivorship bias and its application in the military. A statistician used the survivorship bias in his calculations when considering how to minimize bomber losses to enemy fire. The military wanted to reinforce the areas where the bomber was shot up instead of looking where it wasn't hit.
OGJoe TIL in the 1980s and 1990s, there were annual Nickelodeon Super Toy Run events which gave lucky child winners 5 minutes to run rampant in a toy store (Toys R Us or Kay Bee Toys) and put toys in shopping carts. The child could keep all the toys he or she brought past the finish line in time.
OoYR4 TIL of Heart Attack Grill, a Las Vegas restaurant where people over 350 lbs. eat free. 3 people have died while eating there, and the only vegan option on their menu is cigarettes.
N7Rpe TIL In 2011 two fishermen from Kiribati went adrift for 33 days before landing in the Marshall Islands. They then found out that their hitherto thought to be dead uncle, who went missing 25 years earlier after also going adrift, had landed in the Marshall Islands as well and married there.
GA6g TIL in 1974 a Florida news reporter killed herself on camera and had already written out the script to be read after her death.