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TIL Scrabble apparently has world titles and even an ELO ranking

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GAgE4 TIL While useful for those with dietary deficiencies, multivitamins offer no real benefit to the majority of the population. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force found no clear evidence that consuming multivitamins "made them healthier in any way."
y4Rw TIL the British Standards Institute has issued standards for the ethical design of robots, declaring that robots should not be designed solely or primarily to kill or harm humans and warning against robots that lack respect for cultural diversity or pluralism.
E1JBp TIL that life under chronic hypoxia has multiple advantages for humans including an overall higher lifespan.
e0JeL TIL that Japan's population is rapidly declining, and Tohoku University established a countdown to national extinction - research estimates that the nation "will have only one remaining child in 4025".
xVrDg TIL About the McKamey Manor, You must sign a 40 page waiver, and the ordeal can last up to 8 hours. People who have went inside the house were reported to have been Waterboarded, Tied, Abused, and getting Buried Alive with Tarantulas. There is a $20K Prize if you can finish, yet no one has.