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TIL Hopscotch is listed among the games prohibited by Buddha.

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W7oe9 TIL MSG occurs naturally in tomatoes and other vegetables.
9KbM TIL the prune industry asked the FDA to relabel prunes as “dried plums” because “prunes” weren’t selling. It worked.
9blQ TIL After President Carter retired, he started an effort to eradicate the Guinea Worm, which infected millions of people with worms that slowly and painfully burrow out of the body over 3 months. By 2001, the infection rate was reduced by 98%, with 80% of the remaining cases in the Sudan warzone.
mxP7v TIL the Pyramids are so well built that when a Sultan's workers tried to destroy a small Pyramid 3000 years after its construction, they could only move 1-2 stones a day and gave up after creating only a gash after eight months
ELZp TIL that Neil Armstrong, first man on the moon, learned to fly before he learned to drive.