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TIL Pinball was illegal in Oakland until 2014.

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kJnne TIL elite chess grandmasters can play multiple games of chess blindfolded simultaneously with great success
YM9x TIL China is building MASSIVE cities just to keep builders busy and generate growth. The result are ghost metropolis.
OGDK1 TIL Vladimir Lenin ruled the shortest time in the Soviet Union, only 1 year and 22 days.
69M8J TIL about the Markovic Affair a political scandal in France in 1968 that followed a violent death of Stefan Marković, a friend and bodyguard of actor Alain Delon. The press speculated Delon was involved. Marković's murder is still unsolved.
VMvy8 TIL The number of men and women in the world is roughly equal, though men hold a slight lead, men (50.4%) women (49.6%). Males have a higher risk of dying than females, both in childhood and at adult ages. So at a certain age, the numbers of men and women even out. In France this occurs at age 25