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TIL Zippers Are Top Cause of Penile Trauma in US

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WlXY TIL Eminem once held a top 30 world record score in Donkey Kong
yVyMv TIL In some places in history counterfeitting coins was punishable with being boiled alive in oil
p8xJZ TIL that if you win the American reality show 'Survivor' you have to give up any non-U.S. citizenship to be able to claim the prize money
Wv4d TIL that in the 70’s, Chuck Berry toured with only a guitar, finding some local bands for each show “confident that he could hire a band that already knew his music” and not even giving them a set list “and just expected the musicians to follow his lead”.
e09db TIL the British invented the word "soccer" 200 years ago, as slang for association football ("assoc."-er). It only lost popularity in the '80s, when the term became "too American"