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TIL That many competitive Scrabble players quit playing competitively after hundreds of “offensive” words were banned, including racial slurs, sexuality and gender insults.

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xVKa5 TIL about the Automat, a fast food-like restaurant with no wait staff. Patrons would put coins into a machine in order to unlock a box with food. At it’s peak in the early 20th century, an Automat chain was one of the largest restaurant chains in the world, serving 800,000 people daily.
D6LV TIL Cleopatra was a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, the most incest-friendly royal family in recorded history, and her first two husbands were her younger brothers
rR1Wo TIL a company in Maine was sued for $10 million because they did not use an Oxford Comma in their workers’ contracts
oBGmA TIL one of the biggest bank heists in history took place in Beirut where ~$2 billion was stolen
rjAx TIL of Paraprosdokian, a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that forces the reader or listener to reinterpret the first part. An example being, “On the other hand, you have different fingers”