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TIL within hours of its release in 1993 the video game DOOM was banned from numerous university networks as a rush of players overwhelmed their systems with deathmatches

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OG8P4 TIL about the world's shortest war between two countries. 38 Minutes of British Naval Bombardment made the Sultan of Zanzibar flee to the German consulate for asylum. He was quite rightfully denied asylum and quickly surrendered.
MNB0 TIL that if parents cleaned a dropped pacifier by sucking on it themselves before giving it back to their baby the child “had nearly 60 percent less eczema and 90 percent less asthma by 18 months compared to parents who used tap or boiling water.”
ANbDw TIL: In 1899, "hot mess" first appeared in print to describe something in extreme confusion or disorder. Complaining that people believed everything they read in newspapers, the Journal of the International Association of Machinists declared, "the public is a hot mess."
R7wb1 TIL Despite not being neighboring countries, Slovak and Slovenian are often confused for each other. Many political leaders have referred to leaders as being from the other country than they are from, and their national anthem and flags sometimes get confused for the wrong country.
BrBGe TIL that in World War II, the German troops used a tool that made their Sturmgewehr shoot curved bullets, called the Krummlauf. They came in angles of 30,45,60, and even 90, with 45 succeeding in numbers the most due to the bullets exploding out of the Krummlauf in the other angles.