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TIL of Mesquite, Texas which in 1976 attempted to ban anyone under 17 from going to an arcade. Alladin's Castle (Bally) sued the city and eventually prevailed in a case that went to the Supreme Court. Years later, the city became home to id Software which created Doom/Quake and popularized PC gaming

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0dxy TIL Oskar Schindler, who saved over 1100 Jews in WWII by employing them, spent all his fortune on bribes and black market purchases for his workers. After the war he never regained any of his wealth and in later life had to live off of a small pension from the German government.
OoNm6 TIL: The wealth of a samurai in feudal Japan was measured in terms of koku; one koku, supposed to be the amount of rice it took to feed one man for a year, was equivalent to around 180 liters.
QJXE9 TIL about rabbit starvation - eating nothing but rabbit meat will lead to starvation due to lack of fat.
ne4Ao TIL that scientists can get four football fields’ worth of skin (for burn victims) from a single baby’s foreskin.
mx57P TIL The 'first recorded murder victim' revealed… from 430,000 years ago. This is the earliest clear case of deliberate, lethal interpersonal aggression in the hominin fossil record, demonstrating that this is an ancient human behaviour