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TIL in 1908 a British pub owner was charged with allowing gambling on a game of chance - darts. He brought a darts player into the court who hit any number requested to prove that darts is a game of skill.

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j6YQp TIL a stalker of Eminem committed three home invasions over a 6-year period. In 2019. he broke into one of Em's former homes & told the new homeowner he was "looking for his brother Marshall." In 2020, he broke into Em's home & told Em that he was there to kill him. In 2024, he broke into it again.
E1eQp TIL about the "Coolidge effect," male animals preferring to mate with new females. Pres. Coolidge and his wife visited a farm, & Mrs. Coolidge learning a rooster mated a dozen times a day, said "Tell Mr. Coolidge." Pres. Coolidge told the rooster had a new hen each time, said "Tell Mrs. Coolidge."
8epp8 TIL that the 2003 Somaliland presidential election, which was hailed as one of the freest and most transparent democratic exercises ever staged in the Horn of Africa, saw the candidate from a minority clan win by a margin of only 0.00016%, or 80 votes, over two other contenders
W7jpX TIL Michelin (the tire/food rating company) produced maps so accurately, that the US military in WWII (and thus the western allies) simply updated an older edition, and printed them to sheets to be distributed to officers, NCOs and obviously command positions.
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