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TIL that ASUS is a shortened form of “Pegasus”, in order to be ranked higher on alphabetical lists.

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JEK1 TIL the famous windows XP desktop background “bliss” was only possible due to an infestation that killed all of the grapes that would have been in that field
jNQDj TIL that Charles Vallandingham accidentally comitted suicide to prove his case in a court by shootinh himself with a pistol
Anpg TIL Gary Gygax had been asked if he invented roleplaying. He modestly responded “No, as long as kids have been playing cops and robbers or cowboys and indians, they’ve been playing roleplaying games.”
M71Lb TIL that Ryan Cohen pivoted a moment before launching his jewelry business into Chewy because he had an "epiphany" 6 years later he sold it for 3.35 billion dollars
VMOVG TIL that in 1920s, a famine struck Russia and forced people to eat raw seeds, grass, dirt, dogs, cats and leather horse harnesses. At its peak, people eat and sell human body parts as meat. Despite reports of cannibalism, the police took no action as it was deemed a legitimate method of survival.