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TIL a mobile Diablo game was an actual April Fool's joke four years ago

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4Ova TIL that, despite popular belief, Americans actually pay more taxes for healthcare than Canadians, Australians, and Western Europeans.
vPNDx TIL about Emperor Norton, an eccentric with no formal power. Dressed in full regalia he would inspect the streets of San Francisco and give edicts which were published by the newspapers. Some businesses even accepted currency with his face on it. When he died over 10,000 people viewed his body.
8a6DK TIL Jeff Goldblum almost lost his virginity to a prostitute when he was 13 with cash he stole from his father's wallet.
4kaVX TIL that Guy Bradley, America's first game warden and reformed poacher, worked independently to increase the population of white egrets on Pelican Island, the worlds first wildlife refuge, before being killed by a poacher while investigating gunshots at his waterfront home.
nWG1o TIL about Dick Stevenson, the legendary Canadian bartender who invented the “sour toe” cocktail. The drink contains a mummified human toe and in when Dick died 5 years ago, his will stated that all 10 of his toes be used in making sour toe cocktails.