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TIL there is a scoring system for UNO. Once a player has no cards remaining, he receives all opponents’ cards and points are counted.

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5MEP TIL a massive, deadly gas explosion in a Harlem piano shop sent pianos flying across the store, surrounding the technician who lived there in a protective “cocoon” as the five-story building collapsed. He walked away with only a scratch.
jNZBR TIL in Auschwitz, there were "tooth-pulling kommandos", whose only job was to pry open the mouths of the gassed victims, and remove "all gold teeth, as well as any gold bridgework and fillings", then the teeth were sent to be melted down and sold as gold bullion.
D1ZRg TIL: A group of participants received a mug and were told they owned it; a second group was only shown the mug. When asked how much they would be willing to sell the mugs for, their asking price was more than twice of the second group. The “endowment effect“; we overvalue what we feel we own.
PYaxg TIL of the Greater Fool Theory, which states that the price of an object is determined not by its intrinsic value, but rather by irrational beliefs and expectations of market participants.
W7MY9 TIL chocolate milk does not come from brown cows