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TIL In 1974 a lawyer sent a demand to the Cleveland Browns to make them stop letting fans create and throw paper airplanes. The team responded by calling him a stupid asshole.

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1aEyX TIL No roads connect the Kamchatka Peninsula to the rest of the world but it has a developed tourist infrastructure. The city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, majority ethnic Russians, has more inhabitants than the entire neighboring Chukotka Autonomous Okrug or Magadan Oblast
ReQa TIL When the original card back art for Magic the Gathering was sent to the printers, it had an accidental ballpoint pen mark on it. The same pen mark has now been on every MTC card for 23+ years.
X0kkk TIL in 2017, a man in Soka, Japan was arrested for stalking and assaulting young girls. He told the police that he copied the plan from the manga "Geiger Counter" where girls were assaulted by a man imitating a utility worker. Police requested that the author be more considerate in future works.
d8ejE TIL that Pythagoras had a phobia of beans. Ironically, it was his fear of beans that caused his death. When attackers chased him into a field of beans, he refused to enter and was killed instead.
pxAp TIL Tesla once paid an overdue hotel bill with a model of his “death beam”, warning hotel staff to never open it. After his death in 1943 the box was pried open and found to contain nothing but harmless old electrical components.