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TIL: The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) not only issues ratings to video games based on their content, but also enforces advertising guidelines adopted by the video game industry

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N7nMP TIL the Kaaba ???? in the Great Mosque of Mecca is black because it's covered with a giant silk shroud called the kiswah. It's made with 670 kgs of black silk, embroidered with 15 kg of gold thread, and costs $4.5 million to make. It's also replaced every year by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
XKpr TIL of The 1916 Umatilla Petticoat Rebellion, a stealth write-in campaign by newly enfranchised women voters that elected female candidates to every open seat of an Oregon town government, with the mayor losing office to his wife.
9wk6 TIL Seth MacFarlane and Mark Wahlberg both were booked on AA flight 11 which crashed into the World Trade Center. Wahlberg decided last minute to fly to Toronto, and MacFarlane missed it by just 10 minutes due to a hangover.
wgnY TIL Another cockroach superpower: they need less than one photon per second to see in the dark, and scientists don’t know why.
rdo4 TIL: Cuttlefish are considered one of the ocean’s most intelligent creatures and are an important example of advanced cognitive evolution in animals.