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TIL Super Smash Bros, despite being over 18 years old, is still hosting tournaments and the 2 highest entry tournaments ever happened last year.

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9YWeG TIL American soldiers in the Pacific theater of WW2 always used passwords containing the letter 'L' due to Japanese mispronunciation, a word such as lollapalooza would be used and upon hearing the first two syllables come back as 'rorra' would "open fire without waiting to hear the rest".
WD44 TIL that a magnet in the table and iron in the cue ball makes it possible to scratch on a coin-operated pool table and still keep playing.
0vAL TIL Finnur Magnusson identified cracks in a rock as Runes and stated that they made up an epic poem about Harald Wartooth, for victory against the Swedish king Sigurd Ring at the Battle of Brávellir. Turns out he was 100% wrong, they were just naturally formed cracks and he looked quite the fool.
MenPa TIL A fatal dose of caffeine is 113 cups of coffee, but you’d die of water poisoning first.
4g4X TIL that Milk allergy is quite different from Lactose intolerance and can be problematic for young children due to ignorance of the differences