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TIL that in 2014, NCAA basketball tournament rules prohibited players from dunking within 20 minutes of game time, which is why a Kansas State walk-on player was called for a technical foul after dunking with 19:58 remaining before tipoff. Kansas State started the game down 1–0.

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ne6Bd TIL Mamoru Samuragochi is a deaf Japanese composer, who known as the “digital-age Beethoven” and creator of Onimusha’s OST. But, it later turned out that all of his works in 18 years were actually written by a ghost writer. And his deafness is all fake
awNOM TIL several European countries classify loot boxes in video games as gambling, forcing game companies such as Blizzard, EA and Valve to release "loot box-free" versions of their games in those territories.
v4JK TIL that Michael Eakin, a PA court justice, has been criticized for writing his opinions as poems, such as “A deal is a deal, if fairly undertaken/and we find disclosure was fair and unshaken.” He believes that “You have an obligation as a judge to be right, but you have no obligation to be dull.”
VVDG TIL despite maxing out at 2 grams apiece, krill are the most abundant life on earth (by weight)
nWPWr TIL that 23 states and Puerto Rico maintain their inactive state guard, a state right established in Title 32, Section 109 of the United States Code.