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TIL: iPhone game Clash of Clans generates more than $2 million per day, and in three years is valued at more than $3 billion

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b64Q7 TIL Tom Baker and Lalla Ward were married at the time they played they Fourth Doctor and Romana 2 respectively on Doctor Who
O4eX TIL that in Chicago in 1918 one hundred waiters were taken into custody for poisoning the drinks of people who tipped them poorly.
JYk1V TIL That from 1906-1920, there was a movement in the US to remove all silent letters and irregular spellings from the English language (eg: although->altho), funded by Andrew Carnegie and supported by Teddy Roosevelt
oRP9Y TIL that Ernest Shackleton, a polar explorer most well known for the Endurance Expedition, when he led his entire crew out of the Antarctic ice after their ship had been crushed, was one of the men who testified at the British inquiry into the Titanic disaster.
Brk8x TIL that the robot suit in the 60's TV series Lost In Space had a built-in ashtray. The suit was so difficult and painful to get in and out of that the actor Bob May would just stay inside and have his smoke breaks in the suit so needed a place for his ashes and butts.