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TIL that when several board games similar to Monopoly became popular, the creators of Monopoly bought them out, effectively creating a monopoly on Monopoly.

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pYDPO TIL that the Sushruta Samhita, a Sanskrit text on medicine and surgery written in India around the 6th century BCE, contains detailed surgical techniques—including cataract surgery, rhinoplasty, and even plastic surgery—around 2000 years before similar practices were documented in the West.
Egrpw TIL in 2003 two Australian teens spent 22 hours in a tree above rising floodwaters after a crocodile killed their friend and showed off his body to them. The 13-foot crocodile then stalked them in their tree all night and most of the morning they were stuck there, before being rescued by helicopter.
XZ98 TIL George Washington’s Presidential salary was $25,000 ($ 1 million today) and spent 7% of his income on alcohol
7r5X7 TIL that in 1993, scientist Cesare Emiliani proposed switching the Gregorian calendar to the Holocene calendar which would account for the entirety of human civilization, starting 12,000 years ago at Year 0. Making the current year 12021 HE (Human Era).
rRwme TIL Ronald McDonald was required to tell children that McDonald's hamburgers grew in a magic hamburger patch and were picked whole so children weren't upset about cows dying.