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TIL - Alcohol is considered a performance-enhancing drug in competitive shooting competitions.

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mKwy TIL: The last name of the V.P. of sales for Nintendo of America is Bowser.
v18nB TIL about Data Rot, a phenomena where stored data can gradually corrupted as the time goes on. This is why newly installed OS' are faster, and why they seem to slow down over time.
6EL8l TIL a 9 yr old Pakistani girl, Arfa Karim, was the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) until 2008. When she suffered cardiac arrest in 2011, Bill Gates assembled an international panel of doctors to advise the local physicians treating her and offered to pay for treatment in the U.S.
7rw77 TIL the sunbittern, native to Central and South America, generally has a subdued brownish coloration while feeding. When alarmed, however, it displays its exceptional chestnut, black, and buff-yellow eyespots on the dorsal side of its wings and its colorful tail, which it uses in defensive displays.
vP1mR TIL the Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force is converting the helicopter carrier JS Izumo into a fixed-wing aircraft carrier, their first since WW2