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TIL only 2 people (to date) have beaten George Costanza’s fictional Frogger high score of 860,630 points.

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neVvG TIL During the US Civil War, General Sherman implemented the scorched earth policy by having his men pile all deed books in front of the courthouse and burn them. The logic was that the big plantations would not be able to prove land ownership.
BV1D TIL of Cunningham’s Law: the idea that “the best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it’s to post the wrong answer.”
MVyb TIL that the world’s largest missile testing facility is located on the island of Kauai in Hawaii and is capable of intercepting two missile targets at once
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KGra TIL that many personal checks written by Marlon Brando were often never cashed as his signature was usually worth more than the amount on the check.