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TIL: Minesweeper's theme was so controversial in some countries that Microsoft was forced to replace the mines with flowers in some locations and rebrand it as "Flower Garden". Link

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eMZk TIL Today (6/5) is National Doughnut Day which was created by The Salvation Army in 1938 to honor the men and women who served doughnuts to soldiers during World War I. In recognition Krispy Kreme, Dunkin Donuts and other shops are offering free donuts today.
pYWZA TIL Both the East and West borders of Suriname have been in dispute for over a century. The issues primarily derive from the primacy of rivers.
QydX TIL Harrison Ford has used his helicopter to come to the rescue of real-world hikers in distress once by saving a woman on top of an Idaho mountain and once by joining a search and rescue mission for a 13-year-old Boy Scout lost in the woods.
1aR4P TIL that in 1935 the Nazis held a competition in which baby pictures were sent in and the "most beautiful Aryan baby" was chosen by Joseph Goebbels. The baby they picked, and used in propaganda for years, was actually Jewish; the photo had been sent in to make the Nazi party look ridiculous.
W7kw8 TIL Jerry Springer was born in a London subway station, which was being used as a bomb shelter in WWII