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TIL I learned about a gamer who played nonstop for 73 hours straight without sleep, food or water who died of organ failure

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R7JB9 TIL Mad Magazine received a notice of legal action in 1980 from Lucasfilm over its parody of The Empire Strikes Back. Mad sent back a letter they had on file from George Lucas saying how much he loved the parody and the lawyers were never heard from again.
rRMee TIL about Ratón Pérez. The Spanish mouse equivalent of the Tooth Fairy
XNJX TIL that women who went to Harvard and graduated from there before 1999, weren’t allowed to receive a Harvard degree. They received a “Radcliffe University” degree instead.
4XJNJ TIL around 1800 BC, a king in Mesopotamia appointed a palace worker king for a short period of time to avoid a disaster that he was told was coming by an oracle. Near the end of the time, he died while eating soup and the worker ruled for 24 years.
eaGL TIL that the Sanskrit word for war literally means “a desire for more cows”