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TIL: A company in Hong Kong once attempted to release a version of Tamagotchi where you would take care of gang member, instead of feeding and playing with him, you’d make him smoke, drink alcohol, and enter knife fights.

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0dgON TIL due to the dangerous area their stadium was located, the Raiders had to schedule all their Monday Night Football games away in the late 80's.
4X0lR TIL of the Westall UFO encounter, which occurred on 6 April 1966 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, where more than 200 students and teachers saw a UFO in broad daylight.
N7DnQ TIL that there is another type of diamond called Lonsdaleite, which are naturally produced at meteorite impact sites. They are about 58 percent harder than regular diamonds, and are much rarer and more valuable.
GARN4 TIL that the first ever Cannes Film Festival was canceled after opening night because the events calendar clashed with the opening of World War II.
Prbw TIL a former Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader who became a high school English teacher was arrested for having sex with a 17 year old student at the school where she taught & was sentenced to never teaching or coaching again. She later got engaged to the student