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TIL that society collapsed on Easter Island largely due to deforestation. One of the main reasons for this was that the trees were logged to move the giant Moai figures into position.

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Y7KYZ TIL about a 1986 arcade game called Chiller in which the player uses a light gun to activate torture devices to maim and kill restrained characters who are incapable of fighting back. It was a commercial failure in the United States because arcade owners refused to purchase it due to the content.
78PEO TIL to date the most expensive NFL trading card ever sold is a 2017 Panini National Treasures Platinum #161 Patrick Mahomes II (Kansas City Chiefs) NFL Shield Rookie Autograph 1/1 which fetched $4.3 million in a private sale in July 2021.
NXaRP TIL during the construction of the Flamingo casino Bugsy Siegel boasted one day that he had personally killed some men; he saw the panicked look on the face of head contractor Del Webb and reassured him, "Del, don't worry, we only kill each other."
MelYW TIL that in the early 1900s, it was believed that human cells in culture would proliferate continuously, but Leonard Hayflick proved that cells “remember” their replication level and have a limit to the number of times they can divide, also that cancer cells do not, so only they are immortal.
6rYl TIL - In Finland they have ‘National Sleepy Head day’, where the last person in a family to wake up is thrown in to a lake or the sea by the rest of the family.