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TIL the phrase ‘Gotta catch 'em all!’ was retired in 2003

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7OGZ TIL that the yakuza has a written exam for it’s prospective members who have to pass it to join the yakuza. Topics range from theft consequences to illegal dumping.
x9xg TIL The James Randi Educational Foundation will pay $1,000,000 to any person who demonstrates any psychic, supernatural, or paranormal ability under satisfactory observation. In the 50 years it’s been running, no one has passed the preliminary test.
Me9RA TIL The most generations alive in a single family has been 7. The great great great great grandparent being Augusta Bunge aged 109 years old
R57vw TIL that serial killer Richard Cottingham worked in the same office as another serial killer, Rodney Alcala, in 1969, though the two denied being aware of each other.
9YdD TIL that the raw flour in cookie dough, and not the raw egg, was responsible for an e. coli outbreak that led to 35 people being hospitalized