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TIL a man hired assassins to kill his son’s WoW avatar to get him to stop playing

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9Xdp TIL Pioneer 10, a space craft meant to study Jupiter which was launched 2 March 1972, was only meant to send signal to Earth for 3 years, but it continued to send signal for over 30 years while heading towards the center of our galaxy.
l7Ar TIL- Domino’s Pizza and Little Caesars Pizza, two of the nation’s biggest pizza chains, were founded 18 miles apart and still maintain their corporate capitals less than 50 miles apart
X0gMP TIL that prior to 1966, Indian Rupee was the currency for the Gulf Countries of UAE, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar and Kuwait.
jNP1v TIL former NFL player James Brooks was found to be illiterate when he was unable to read court documents after admitting to not paying over $100k in child support. When the judge asked how he graduated from Auburn without being able to read, he said, "Didn't have to go to to class."
Lmep TIL at the Sanjusangendo Temple in Japan there is an annual competition to fire as many arrows through the temple as possible in 24 hours. The arrows can’t hit the floor, walls or the ceiling. The current record is 8133 successful shots out of 13,053 shots, set in 1686.