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TIL Americans Believe Violence is Worse than Ever; When in Reality U.S. Violence is Lower than Ever

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68gw TIL that Tsar Peter III of Russia court-martialed and hanged a rat which had chewed the heads off his toy soldiers.
9YemM TIL that after approximately 3,195 hours, a set of fish beat three Pokémon games, by swimming around in a tank with motion tracking. The fish tanks were mapped with directional arrows as well as the A and B buttons, and as the fish swam into a button’s mapped area, it activated the buttons in-game
rRaEM TIL Fox 'Stole' a Game Clip from YouTube, Used it in Family Guy and filed a copyright claim for the Original to be taken down
wo7P8 TIL that “The staff ate it later” is a caption shown on screen when food appears on Japanese TV programs to indicate that it was not thrown away after filming (Since it is generally not socially accepted to discard food in Japan)
vPaej TIL in 2018, the term “Ass-Clown” was added into Webster’s Dictionary, crediting Mike Judge as the screenwriter behind Office Space for coining it