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TIL that before the Eraser was invented people used soft bread crumbs to erase pencil marks

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nWjDP TIL The home port for the game "NBA Jam" was going to have an unlockable Mortal Kombat themed court called the "Kombat Kourt." The NBA said no to this as it included such things as the court being surrounded by lava and a severed human head as the ball.
YE9d TIL the words “faggot” and “Fascist” both come from the Latin word “fascis,” meaning “bundle of wood.”
jNpjM TIL of Dorothy Thompson, an American journalist working in Europe in the 1930's. She was granted an interview with Adolf Hitler in 1931, after which she referred to him as "... insecure—the very prototype of the Little Man." She eventually became the first American journalist expelled from Germany
mBRM TIL that between 2180 and 2160 BC a tunnel was built under the Euphrates River to connect the two halves of Babylon. It was the biggest underwater tunnel until one was built beneath the Thames in 1824.
DWrD TIL Boris Yeltsin signed a presidential decree in 1996 that gave the old Soviet flag similar status as the Russian national flag and it is still flown on certain holidays