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TIL Kit Harington didn’t know his name was actually Christopher until the age of 11. Having gone by Kit since he was born.

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oRde8 TIL About the African Dodger Game. In the 1920s people would throw baseballs at black people's heads at carnivals, causing great injuries and even death
PYJDJ TIL of Kim Han-Sol, North Korean heir apparent until 2001, when his father lost favor, and was assassinated by poison in 2017. In 2011 Han-Sol expressed distress and guilt over North Korean social conditions in social media. Targeted for assassination, his whereabouts has been unknown since 2017.
PMMV TIL that there is an apparatus and method for remotely monitoring and altering brain waves; in addition to mind control, it is capable of making people hear voices, smell odors, see images, feel sensations, experience emotions imposed by someone else.
ORaY TIL that the Governor of Georgia from the early 1930s had two men executed for murder - despite a third man pleading guilty - because, ‘they looked like the criminal type’.
D1lrj TIL in 2009, there was a small CS:GO e-sports tournament between virtus.pro & forZe. The sponsors of the event decided to secretly invite a couple of strippers to see if the players could get distracted. The women were topless and tried everything they could, but the players didn't get distracted.