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TIL There is a street sign stylized using letters, with their Scrabble values as a subscript in Jackson Heights, NY where the game was created.

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R7oQ1 TIL in 1941, Time Magazine planned to select the Disney character Dumbo as its Person of the Year, even designing a formal portrait for him and the title of "Mammal of the Year". This was until the Pearl Harbor attacks happened, forcing them to instead give the award to President Franklin Roosevelt.
Mv0A TIL: there’s a town in Australia where half of its population live in caves carved underground to stay away from the heat.
ne1EY TIL that Jason Paige, the singer of the original Pokémon Theme, didn't expect the song to become popular and knew nothing about the franchise when he recorded it. He considers the song to be a relatively minor part of his career, as he has worked with Michael Jackson, Billy Joel, and Frankie Valli.
pWDQ TIL that the water between India and Sri Lanka is only 3-30 feet deep and was purportedly passable on foot until 1480 AD when a cyclone moved some sand around.
BjoW TIL that the scent of a woman crying triggers a dramatic decrease in levels of testosterone and sexual arousal in the majority of men. And that men are subconsciously able to differentiate between genuine tears, and those that are forced.