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TIL that EA makes $420 millon/year off of the Sims 4

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Meokb TIL that in its early days, football was primarily played in colleges and was extremely violent due to the rugby style nature of the rules. It was so violent that in 1905 alone, there were 19 fatalities that US President Teddy Roosevelt threatened to shut down the sport unless changes were made.
47Pg TIL the difference between hardwood and softwood has to do with how they reproduce, not the hardness of the wood, and that balsa wood - one of the softest woods - is a hardwood.
wo5P8 TIL there was a list of 164 songs that radio stations were not supposed to play immediately following the 9/11 attacks
woElJ TIL that in order to settle their long standing border dispute Benin and Burkina Faso declared in 2008 that the ~68 km2 area of Koalou/Kourou would belong to neither country. Making it one of the worlds few unclaimed territories.
RV6l TIL in 2013 a heatwave of 86°F killed 760 people in Britain.