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TIL the precursor to Monopoly was designed to illustrate how rents enrich property owners and impoverish tenants, and that when children play the game, it would “provoke their natural suspicion of unfairness.”

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e04xn TIL in the 80s, Munich's Playboy Club issued membership cards that, at a glance, looked very similar to diplomatic passports. As a result, many people escaped East Berlin by simply flashing their membership cards, and were usually waved through by guards.
R7JjQ TIL twins Grace and Virginia Kennedy (b. 1970) were often left alone with their German speaking grandmother as children and as a result developed their own secret language. They used it til they were about 8 when they were forbidden to by their father. They called each other "Poto" and "Cabengo".
Wk6rX TIL that 8 US presidents have been fluent in greek.
7oPb TIL in negotiations to sell, one of Reddit’s founders “determined to be a hard-negotiating 22-year-old, told Conde Nast that it couldn’t buy Reddit unless the founders each got $1 million.” He later said “A million dollars isn’t as much as I thought it was.”
VKXD TIL most of the world’s major waterways have been diverted or dammed or otherwise manipulated—in the United States, only two per cent of rivers run unimpeded.