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TIL Robin Williams came up with the idea to put Sid Meier’s name on his videogames

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Axxo TIL in 2012 a man intentionally jumped off of the monorail at the Bronx Zoo into the tiger exhibit, to be ‘one with the tiger’. He survived, and when the police asked him why he did it he replied “everyone in life makes choices”.
GjEg TIL The Koosh Ball, the non-bouncing rubber ball once described as a “cross between a porcupine and a bowl of Jell-O”, was invented because some kids were not good at playing catch. Its invention is chronicled in the book, The Secret History of Balls.
EReP TIL that North Korea did not return tens of thousands of South Korean POWs after the Korean War in 1953. They and their children were forced to work in coal mines for decades; 79 escaped from 1994 to 2009. Nine hundred US soldiers also may not have been returned.
N77oP Short answer: Yes, but they’re pretty much illegal
LQrMr TIL In 2023, Anguilla’s government made about US$32 million from fees collected for registering .ai domains. That amounted to more than 10% of gross domestic product for the territory.