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TIL in 2011 George Takei unilaterally declared peace between Star Wars and Star Trek fans, and asked them both to declare war on Twilight

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D1Z8Y TIL about NHL Rule 31.11 which says if the officials cannot make it to a game and no suitable substitute can be found the players need to referee the game themselves, this rule has been enforced 1 time on January 15 1983, where only 1 of the 3 officials could make it due to a snowstorm.
DQG8j TIL MMA legend Georges St-Pierre was involved in creating the combat for the video game Sleeping Dogs
KO8EE TIL Doctors' sloppy handwriting kills more than 7,000 people annually in the United States
0wbBp TIL Most of the Cambodians did not even know that Pol Pot was the head of Khmer Rouge until his communist friends from China “insisted” him to show his face to the world as the leader of Cambodia. Even his family members who were working in the fields did not know he was running the country.
QPee TIL that kudzu, that vine that grows EVERYWHERE in the southeastern US, is edible.