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TIL Hopscotch is listed among the games prohibited by Buddha.

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pKGe TIL an Army helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War named Hugh Thompson prevented hundreds of civilians at My Lai from being murdered by confronting fellow soldiers and ferrying civilians to safety by helicopter.
PYVbZ TIL the first president of the United States is technically John Hanson under the Articles of Confederation in 1781
Zrmv TIL in 2014 a man maced a Gamestop employee because Sonic the Hedgehog’s arms were blue rather than flesh coloured in Sonic Boom
x7Yk TIL in the online game EVE a player group spent 12 months infiltrating a rival group, then assassinated their leader and stole or destroyed $16,500.00 USD worth of game money and supplies.
8e8x8 TIL the American Chestnut Tree was king of the Eastern U.S. forests that could grow 120ft (36.5m) tall and 16ft (4.9m) across until a blight arrived in 1904. It took only 40 short years for the disease to bring to extinction the estimated 4 billion ancient giants towering from Georgia to Maine.