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TIL Pinball was illegal in Oakland until 2014.

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R7Pd7 Today I learned optimism is 25% inherited
VMm4B TIL: The Market Theater Gum Wall in Seattle, WA is covered in several inches thick of gum, the wall is 15 feet high by 50-foot-long.
wLoOW TIL: In chess boxing, after 6 rounds of chess & 5 rounds of boxing (switching every 3 min), a player can win by knockout, technical knockout, or checkmate.
ODJ4 TIL there is a 2002 movie called Wolves of Wall Street, in which young, good-looking brokers turn into werewolves.
VBOEZ TIL that, in 1972, several natural nuclear fission reactors were discovered in Oklo, Gabon. They worked around 1.8 to 1.7 billion years BP, continued for a few hundred thousand years, and produced around 100kW of thermal power