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TIL that the original job of the coroner was to collect the revenues of the English Crown - legal fines, buried treasure, shipwrecks, and the like. This included the seized estates of suicide victims and murderers, and over time the office of coroner evolved into the modern function.

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5wK8 TIL that Valve never expected “the cake is a lie” joke to become as popular as it did. They expected a metal hoop that roles past the player during the ending cutscene named “Hoopy the Hoop” would become the most well known joke in Portal. Hoopy even reappears in Portal 2.
p8RvQ TIL of Helios Airways flight 522. A loss of cabin pressurisation incapacitated the crew, leaving the aircraft flying on autopilot - a flight attendant with flying experience used an oxygen tank to stay conscious and tried to pilot the plane
PYgJw TIL that the game Snakes and Ladders originated in ancient India and was called Moksha Patam. The morality lesson of the game was that a person can attain salvation (Moksha) through doing good, whereas by doing evil, one will inherit rebirth to lower forms of life.
ADRwg TIL: Very few frog species actually make the familiar 'ribbit ribbit' sound made famous by the Baja California Chorus Frog which is native to Hollywood and Southern California
xDVo TIL that MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) was done at the ancient Olympics. It is called Pankration and is the only event that wasn’t reinstated with the creation of the modern Olympics.