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TIL Plants Vs Zombie was originally developed under the title ‘Lawn of the Dead’ which had to be changed for legal reasons.

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nWxa7 TIL the Northern Short-Tailed Shrew is one of the few venomous mammals and actively hunts for prey. It regularly consumes up to 3x it's body weight each day. While known to eat seeds and fungi, it prefers invertebrates and vertebrates.
GNv5 TIL in 1982 drug dealers in California tried to synthesise heroine more cheaply, and accidentally created a substance that gave users late stage Parkinson’s disease in a matter of days
9wgoQ TIL Oxford Dictionaries named the emoji 😂 (Face With Tears of Joy, U+1F602) as Word of the Year in 2015
NO1b TIL that in the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake, residents of Sendai received 10-30 seconds and Tokyo 60 seconds warning from Japan’s Earthquake Early Warning (EEW) system before the major seismic waves hit. Alerts pushed to cellphones, TV broadcasts and web pages around the country.
9YO1r TIL Johnny Carson Predicted the toilet paper shortage back in 1973