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TIL that Brazil has a 120% tax on video games because of an old law that classifies all games as gambling…

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16V0O TIL Kurt Godel, famous for his incompleteness theorems, was terrified of being poisoned, and would only eat food prepared by his wife Adele. He died of malnutrition shortly after she was hospitalized.
P1EXJ TIL that the US Navy had the largest naval fleet in history with 6768 ships at the end of World War II
4kedJ TIL the writer of 'Crime and Punishment', Dostoevsky, was sentenced to death by firing squad for political reasons. Moments before he was to be shot, a cart delivered a letter from the Tsar commuting the sentence to four years of exile in Siberia
mnPY TIL Jesus is mentioned more times in the Koran than Muhammad
dWoQ TIL that in 1979, debris from NASA’s Space Station “Skylab” crashed in to the small town of Esperance, Western Australia. The town then fined NASA $400 for littering.