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TIL about Candlepin bowling and I really wanna play it! Several different and fun rule differences from traditional ten-pin bowling.

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4law TIL that 12,000 bears are farmed for their bile in Asia which is used in traditional Chinese medicine and generates $2bn per year. Farming always involves surgery on the bears to insert a catheter or to cut a hole through the abdomen by which the bile leaks. Bear bile has no medicinal effect.
kJPA7 TIL that squirt guns predate the Civil War. Would be General Sherman once said “Why, you might as well attempt to put out the flames of a burning building with a squirt-gun.”
dDyKE TIL that in 1016 Edmund Ironside, King of the English, was assassinated while on the toilet by an assassin who hid inside the toilet.
A7rx TIL that after the fall of the Roman Empire the technology to make concrete was lost for 1000 years.
DXv TIL that Justin Berfield, who played Reese in the TV series ‘Malcolm in the Middle’ is actually younger than Frankie Muniz who played his younger brother Malcolm. [Fixed]