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TIL that the virtual currencies of games like RuneScape are worth more than the currency of Venezuela

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Lood TIL that the author of ‘Where the Wild Things are’, Maurice Sendak, is gay and had a male partner for 50 years until his partner’s death. Despite this, he never told his parents, and they died still believing he was straight
neryB Why is it that at the very moment that you should be the most relaxed, you suddenly get seized with the feeling of falling through the air? It's not uncommon. About 70 percent of people regularly face this experience, which is technically known as a hypnic jerk.
v19AK TIL the original "Echidna" was not an egg-laying mammal, but a legendary half-woman half-snake who was the mother of several Greek monsters, including the Hydra, Sphinx, Chimera, and Cerberus.
0w9L1 TIL a Texas man shot himself in the face after his bullet ricocheted of the armadillo he was trying to shoot.
gMKJ8 TIL about the Disgrace of Gijón, a Football (Soccer) match between West Germany and Austria so bad, the German TV Commentator refused to comment the game at one point, the Austrian TV commentator asked people to change the channel, and Spain's newspaper printed the match in their Crimes Section.