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TIL that the card game UNO has a sequel named DOs

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Y5xA TIL When Wong Shun Leung (Bruce Lee’s master and Ip man’s student) was asked if he was the best fighter in the world, he replied, “No, only the second best”; when asked who was the best, he said, “I have not met him yet.”
jPDj TIL there are plants that, when eaten by herbivores, release chemicals to call in predators.
rRWgx TIL of William Kamkwamba, who taught himself to build windmills from library books. He built his first windmill, at age 15, out of junk from the scrap yard and brought power to his Malawian village. Later on he built another windmill to power water pumps to irrigate fields.
P1paL TIL the world's oldest known message in a bottle was 132 years old, written in German and found in 2018 on an Australian beach, with the message: ‘Could the finder please plot the coordinates it was found, and the date it was found, and send it back.’
vyX7 TIL that since it’s inception, the War on Drugs has cost the United States 1 trillion dollars.