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TIL That ESPN used to broadcast the card game Magic: The Gathering on TV.

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aoEL TIL a man once jumped into alligator infested waters, screamed “F*ck you alligators” and was subsequently eaten alive
x5rD TIL Norway has the World’s biggest sovereign fund, where it has been saving almost all the money it gets from the sale of oil and is worth almost a trillion dollars.
OXbL TIL Scientists say human greenhouse gas emissions have canceled the next ice age, and that pre-industrial human modifications of the climate through agriculture, fires and deforestation might have just barely staved it off.
1ayBO TIL the largest ape to ever live was doomed by its size.