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TIL that Snapchat lost nearly 40 million on unsold spectacles.

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lo4va TIL that people with dementia think that stuff like a black doormat isn’t a doormat, but a deep hole in the floor. Due to these visual perception problems, people with dementia avoid stepping the doormat, and this is sometimes used to keep them from leaving their care facilites.
0w54R TIL Ray Chapman is the only Major League Baseball player to die during a game. He was hit in the head by a pitch thrown by Yankees pitcher Carl Mays. It led to Major League Baseball banning the spit ball.
Jd8l TIL the precursor to Monopoly, “The Landlord’s Game”, was invented by a Quaker and tried to illustrate the problem with land speculation and promote a federal tax on property.
jDwv TIL the line in Sk8er Boi, “He was a boy, she was a girl. Can I make it any more obvious?”, is voted the 4th worst lyrics of all time. (The worst is “I’m serious as cancer, when I say rhythm is a dancer”)
PW1g TIL the NEAR Shoemaker probe landed on the asteroid Eros on February 12, 2001