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TIL The Pentagon had staff stop playing Pokemon Go with a memo titled "Pokemon stop" and to play the game only when outside.

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11xr TIL that laser tattoo removal is the process of using different wave lengths of light to break down the metallic ink particles to sizes small enough that they can be passed to the liver by your body’s white blood cells.
j6An TIL Comedy Central received more than 2,000 angry e-mail complaints when the South Park creators pranked fans with the episode “Terrance and Phillip in Not Without My Anus” instead of concluding the season 1 cliffhanger about the identity of Cartman’s father
5JLQ TIL Jimmy Page played rhythm guitar on the 007 title song for “Goldfinger”
9YKMp TIL that Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II had young infants raised without speaking to them in the 13th century to determine if there was a "natural" language imparted by God. His experiments proven unsuccessful because all the children raised this way died.
awZOZ TIL that composer Johann Schobert (NOT Schubert) died from eating poisonous mushrooms, after two people told him not to eat them. A doctor friend insisted that they were edible. Schobert, the doctor, his wife, and all but one of his children ate the resulting mushroom soup and died.