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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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P18DJ TIL if a person touches a bird’s nest, a baby bird or another baby animal, it will that cause the adults to abandon their young is a myth.
KOdaG TIL that in 2003 the Bolton Museum in England purchased a statue of the granddaughter of King Tutankhamun for £440,000. In 2006 they discovered it was a forgery
8eO8P TIL that Counter Strike was originally a mod for Half-Life
kB1g TIL that “Da Vinci’s Rule of the Trees” (“all branches of a tree … put together are equal in thickness to the trunk.”) appears to be true - but “looking at big trees, there’s thousands of branches, and it takes a lot of undergrads to measure it.”
xVow5 TIL the word “fuck” used in all 9 parts of speech; noun, pronoun, adjective, verb, adverb, conjunction, preposition, interjection, and article