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TIL French Montana Solitaire has a win-rate of 2%. It is very easy to learn, but requires immense strategy to play well.

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1aR1X TIL during the development of Space Harrier, the president of SEGA insisted that if the graphics were done, a game was ready for release. To properly finish the game, the lead designer rigged a secret switch to the bottom of his desk that would mess up the colors whenever giving a demonstration.
e0w0g TIL cardinal birds are romantic; they mate for life, travel together, sing before nesting, and during courtship, the male feeds seed to the female beak-to-beak.
8aM5X TIL an actor in Nazi Germany lost his job for being Jewish. He went to the Alps, grew a beard, and dyed all his hair by bathing in diluted hydrogen. He returned to the stage claiming to be a self-taught peasant actor and was praised by the Nazis as "proof of the superiority of Aryan blood."
ADyLn TIL about Carl Tanzler, a radiology technologist at the Marine-Hospital Service in Key West, Florida. He developed an obsession for a young Cuban-American tuberculosis patient. In 1933, almost 2 yrs after her death, Tanzler removed her body from its tomb, & lived w the corpse for 7 yrs.
epgDD TIL In January 1962, the Flying Wallendas were performing a pyramid walk in Detroit Michigan, during the performance, one of the acrobats made a small movement causing them to collapse the pyramid and fall (they didn't use a net). Two acrobats died and one was paralyzed.