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TIL Nearly 37% of purchased Steam games are never played.

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16B0V TIL Malo kingi or the common kingslayer is an Australian Irukandji jellyfish named after Robert King - an American tourist killed by one of them in 2002. They are the smallest jellyfish in the world, the size of a thumbnail and hospitalise 50-100 people each year. Their venom causes haemorrhaging.
BBBr TIL, that in medieval combat the Mordschalg (literally murder-strike) was a move where the attacker gripped the sword and hit the opponent with the crossguard to devastating effect
BNlL TIL Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft all employ the same tax avoidance strategy.
v11nK TIL someone developed a method to secretly communicate with people on LSD
4knLb TIL that the oldest continuously-operating tattoo parlor in the world is in Jerusalem and has been tattooing pilgrims since 1300.