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TIL that developers could have been putting minigames in loading screens for us to play while we wait for the proper game to load, but Namco took out a patent for it 20 years ago, preventing any developers from doing so.

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VBKbk TIL in 2012 two drunk tourists stole a penguin named Dirk from an aquarium after they broke into the SeaWorld in Queensland, Australia. The next day they released him into a canal but were spotted by locals, who reported them. Both were fined £637.
781mZ TIL John Heisman, whom the Heisman Trophy was named for, was Georgia Tech's head coach for its 222-0 game against Cumberland and ran up the score as payback for Cumberland baseball team's thrashing Heisman's coached GA Tech baseball team 22-0 earlier in the same year.
ELQd TIL a paediatrician was forced to flee her home by vigilantes who confused her job title with “paedophile”
jn6j TIL Luxembourg is the second wealthiest country in the world (based on per capita GDP).
lo4WB TIL that for a time lots of navy ships and other military véhicule where painted in pink for better camouflage during dusk and dawn. The idea came from Lord Mountbatten after he saw a ship repainted in pink (the only colour available at the harbour) disappear in the sunset