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TIL that popping a pimple in the ominously dubbed "triangle of death" area of your face could lead to brain infection.

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GlDN TIL that there is a card game in which asking about or explaining the rules is against the rules: “New players are expected to join a game and deduce the rules of play by observation, trial and error.”
Wk9r9 TIL that an original copy of the Declaration of Independence was bought at a Tennessee thrift store for just $2.48 along with a candelabra and a set of salt and pepper shakers. It was then sold to a Utah firm for $477,650, nearly 200,000 times the original price.
POgL TIL in the 1930s, African Americans weren’t allowed to compete in sanctioned bowling tournaments, so they formed their own all-black bowling league. They called it the NBA.
XBJQ TIL that the last Democrat elected to replace another Democrat as president was James Buchanan, in 1856.
epDRD TIL that the first apple computer was sold for $666 without mouse and keyboard just a simple assembled circuit board