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TIL that the card game UNO has a sequel named DOs

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RWX9 TIL twenty years ago Australian aboriginal suicide rates were equivalent to the national rate but now they are three fold, and in some regions spates of suicide have reached 100 times the national average.
xVvp1 TIL: Sexagesimal (base 60) is a numeral system with sixty as its base. It originated with the ancient Sumerians in the 3rd millennium BC, was passed down to the ancient Babylonians, and is still used—in a modified form—for measuring time, angles, and geographic coordinates.
x6pEo TIL Pakistan accidentally took down Youtube for the entire globe in 2008 in an attempt to block it
VPKm TIL a Japanese Oil Tanker captain fell into a cactus at a Santa Barbra Oil Field, provoking laughter from the local workers. 5 years later he returned in an Imperial Japanese Navy sub and made the first mainland shelling of the US at that oil field.
XEBQE TIL that there is a pineapple on top of the Wimbledon trophy likely because it used to be a symbol of prestige at the time when the trophy was designed