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TIL bowling lanes have a very thin patterned coat of oil that is crucial to consistently landing a strike.

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5VQ1k TIL that Windows has an emoji panel if you hit the window button + the period or semicolon button, which can add even complex emojis to text. (⌐■_■)
JYmQ TIL that MIT students have a history of some of the most awesome pranks that have ever been pulled, including hacking the lighting system of one building on campus and rigging it so that they could play Tetris using the windows as tiles.
6El0Q TIL That while only 30% of 16-24 year olds in the UK report having had sex before turning 16, 72% of them thought half or more of 16 year olds had had sex before turning 16
79gM TIL an error of Costa Rica’s border on Google Maps led to an invasion of Costa Rica by the army of Nicaragua. Google responded, saying that their Maps “shouldn’t be used as a reference to decide military actions between countries”.
6E9Nl TIL 5 LA firefighters assaulted a man unprovoked in 2015, the victim has permanent brain damage while the 5 firefighters are still active today.