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TIL Hopscotch is listed among the games prohibited by Buddha.

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yn4a TIL that when it was time to make Pokemon Stadium, future Nintendo President Satoru Iwata got a hold of the PKMN Red/Green source code, and figured out how all the battle logic worked so it could be ported. The original programmer was astounded he figured out the complicated system - in just a week.
0dJby TIL Bread was invented in Egypt around 8,000 BC. The first examples of it were flat and unleavened, most closely resembling what we know today as chapatis in India or tortillas in Latin America.
OG6vg TIL that despite being only 0.3% of the worlds population, Australia has 80% of the worlds poker machines located outside of a casino.
6Eg1Z TIL that the present day events of The Incredibles are set in the 1960s
GJx1 TIL Bob Marley gave credit for “No Woman, No Cry” to Vincent Ford, a friend who ran a soup kitchen, to ensure the royalty checks would keep it open.