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TIL that Activision has a patent for manipulating multiplayer lobbies to increase exposure to people with paid skins and get players to spend more money on microtransactions this way

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wPmW TIL the Kingdome in Seattle (former home of the Mariners) will finally be paid off in two years. It was demolished 14 years ago.
E1gbp TIL Only one woman, Mary Edwards Walker, has received the Medal of Honor, and her award was temporarily rescinded.
XEKjr TIL of Adam Rainer, the only known person in history to be both a giant and a dwarf, he was 3’8” at age 19, and 7’8” at age 51.
OGBAa TIL that all but one the first cryogenically frozen humans eventually decomposed due to either mismanagement, faulty equipment or family issues.
kOyLE TIL astronaut Bruce McCandless floated in space completely unattached to anything, 320 feet away from the space-shuttle with only a nitrogen jetpack back in 1984.