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TIL A man sued the makers of Lineage II, an online game, for making him addicted to it. He claimed that he played the game for over 20,000 hours and neglected his family, hygiene, and health. He won the case and received an undisclosed settlement.

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9Y5Vm TIL About Richard Best, the Pilot that helped Sink 2 Japanese Carriers in Battle of Midway during WW2 just 6 months after Pearl Harbour. Only the 2nd man in all of world to destroy multiple aircraft carriers in a single day.
1YO8 TIL that because Boeing expected supersonic passenger airliners to render the 747 and other subsonic airliners obsolete, they designed the 747 with a hump to allow the aircraft to be easily converted for cargo by installing a front cargo door below the flight deck.
KAjR TIL that Walt Disney built a house for his parents the year that “Snow White” came out. The furnace in the new house was faulty, and within weeks the gas leak killed his mother.
rN5N4 TIL The word “ham” (as in HAM Radio) is not an acronym. In the early days of telegraphy & radio comms, professional operators would refer to amateur operators as “hams”, implying their incompetence. The slur was eventually forgotten and the amateur radio community widely adopted the term “HAM Radio”
a88nL TIL that the official Hitler sent to coerce fascist Spain into joining the Axis in WWII was secretly opposed to Nazism. Unsurprisingly, he did not convince Spain to join the war. After the war, the Spanish government gave his widow a pension in gratitude.