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TIL Eminem once held a top 30 world record score in Donkey Kong

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8ebYV TIL Mary Ann Hall’s House on Penn. Ave. in Washington, D.C., was the premier brothel during the Civil War. Known for its cleanliness, fine dining, elegant furnishings, and discretion, it offered patrons a place to drink wine, socialize, and enjoy the company of well-dressed—and undressed—women.
ANQ17 TIL that the late president of Nintendo Hiroshi Yamauchi owned the Seattle Mariners baseball team. He had never been to a baseball game before buying the team, and despite owning the Mariners for over 20 years, never attended a single one of their games.
VWmB TIL the word vaccine comes from the Latin root “vacca,” meaning cow. This is due to the discovery that smallpox could be prevented by inoculating patients with the much less severe cowpox virus.
kJXME TIL scientists agree that most domesticated chickens in the world today trace their primary wild ancestry to the Red Junglefowl native to Southeast Asia
E1nXP TIL that in 1958, Canada set off one of the largest intentional non-nuclear explosions in history to remove a rock in the middle of a shipping lane. A tunnel half a mile long was dug out under the ocean and filled with 2.75 million pounds of explosive.