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TIL that Eminem and Elton John have been close friends for two decades

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pYBZG TIL Billiards was originally played with a mace, a curved wooden head attached to a narrow handle, which was used to push the ball rather than strike it.
R7Xv6 TIL about John Atanasoff, who built the first digital computer, but got very little credit because his employer, Iowa State College, never filed the patent application
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