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TIL that professional wrestlers stab themselves with a razor blade to create blood for the match

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9wym6 TIL a think tank says the NFL can't actually legally enforce their warning, "Any other use of this telecast or any pictures, descriptions, or accounts of the game without the NFL's consent is prohibited.”
7rX5r TIL in the 90s, video game designer Kenji Eno learned he had blind fans, who played his games with great effort. So he designed a blank-screen game just for them: "Real Sound: Kaze no Regret." He made Sega send 1000 consoles (w/ the game) to blind people. It is still a popular game for the blind.
OGn04 TIL that in ancient Lydia, it was common practice for most young commoner women to become prostitutes to raise enough money for a marriage dowry
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