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TIL of Swordquest, an Atari 2600 game that contained hidden clues players could decipher for a chance of winning jewelry prizes valued at $25,000~ each

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wLEoM TIL Rastafarians believed Haille Selassie, then king of Ethiopia to be the second coming of Jesus. Selassie refuted this and publicly denied his immorality. Rastafarians took this as proof he was in fact Jesus. Selassie's subsequent death in 1975 resulted in a crisis of faith for many Rastafarians.
PYoYO TIL in 1969 LIFE magazine published a cover story called “The Faces Of The American Dead In Vietnam: One Week’s Toll.” Page after page of images of young men, 242 of them, killed in seven days of fighting the war in Vietnam.
e0jJb TIL even though Canada has converted to the metric system, many things such as height, weight, floor area of houses, and more are still measured in imperial units
1aNwV TIL In the movie "Molly's Game" Michael Cera portrays an antagonist character who's actually Tobey Maguire (Spiderman) in the real story. The author of the book claims that he was an insufferable douche and one time even asked her to "bark like a seal" for a 1,000$ to entertain him and his buddies.
BgB9x TIL: A 12-Year-Old Boy Fought on a World War II Battleship and Became the Nation’s Youngest Decorated War Hero