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TIL that Japanese football fans always clean up their stadium after their World Cup Finals games, a tradition stemming back to the 1998 World Cup

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4kmw TIL greyhound changed their slogan from “there’s a reason youve never heard of bus rage” after a brutal murder occured on one of their lines
eppJE TIL coding RollerCoaster Tycoon in the late 1990s required significant optimization of PC power and memory constraints at the time. Per designer Chris Sawyer, letting guests drown was simply easier than programming the alternative of allowing them to swim to shore.
m1xpR TIL that one of the earliest recorded variations of classic dad phrase "Women: can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em" is found in a speech from 102 B.C. by Roman Censor Q. Caecilius Metellus Numidicus, in a speech that would be repeated by Caesar Augustus nearly a century later
M7NK TIL that the original Mortal Kombat game was conceived as a fighting game based on Jean-Claude Van Damme. The creators wanted him to star in it, but he had a prior deal with the Sega Genesis platform. The creators then made the character Johnny Cage based on JCVD’s appearance in the movie Bloodsport
KYgD6 TIL that a set of triplets found each other coincidentally after being separated at adoption for a pyschological experiment, when a college student mistook one of the triplets for his unknown brother. Once the two reunited, the unusual story made the paper catching the attention of the third brother