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TIL there’s a Trogdor! boardgame!

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nvvG TIL A Finnish mathematician spends three month designing the “world’s most difficult Sudoku” and claims there’s only one answer; a 69 year old Chinese farmer solves it and provides a second answer in just 3 days
ENEV TIL that the pink triangle, rendered in hot pink as a gay pride and gay rights symbol, was originally rendered in pink and used pointed downward on a Nazi concentration camp badge to denote homosexual men.
nWXoY TIL that Ian Fleming got the name James Bond from an ornithologist, whose works he admired. Fleming chose the name Bond to sound blunt and everyday.
N7rE6 TIL that 90% of "dead" cell phone batteries returned to the manufacturer are repaired and resold.
e4DD TIL that reintroducing wolves to Yellowstone changed the entire geography of the park: as elk were displaced, saplings that would have been eaten by elk were spared, riverbank erosion was brought under control, and streams and rivers shifted their courses.