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TIL a pro Counter-Strike player said about his team that they ‘were all on Adderall’ in an interview; as a result, the ESL, one of the largest eSports organization, announced that they will be working with the World Anti-Doping Agency to implement drug-testing for pro players.

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yDaJ TIL that according to the unpublished notes written by J.R.R Tolkien regarding ‘The Silmarillion’, 'Melkor’ (a Dark lord that preceded Sauron) was prophesised to return and wage an apocalyptic war, presumably thousands of years after the war of the ring.
1Y4O TIL Jerry Parr was inspired to join the Secret Service after repeatedly watching Ronald Reagan’s 1939 movie “Code of the Secret Service”. In the 1981 assassination attempt on Reagan, he was the one who saved his life.
nWyJr TIL a woman lost her mother at 50 to fatal familial insomnia, a rare brain disease with no cure that removes the ability to sleep. After discovering she carried the gene, she and her husband quit their jobs to pursue research at Harvard to find a cure before the disease activates when she becomes 50
0ZlR Til the default Windows XP desktop is a real picture of a real location with no digital enchantments.
696Zw TIL Adolf Heusinger, Operations Chief within the general staff of the High Command of the German Army from 1938-1944, would become the Chairman of the NATO Military Committee from 1961 to 1964.