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TIL about the term "King's X", apparently used by kids to call a timeout in a game.

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Yp987 TIL A recent development in Hoarding Disorder is the hoarding of data. This is where someone stores huge amounts of electronic data and emails that they're extremely reluctant to delete.
Lkmnp TIL: Hans Asperger (after whom a type of autism is named) helped the nazis to euthanize disabled children
P18aV TIL that the Colt Armalite AR-15 was used in Vietnam starting in 1961. Battlefield reports from US Army Special Forces lavishly praised the AR-15 and the stopping-power of the 5.56mm cartridge, pressing for wide adoption as a replacement for the M-14. The M-16 variant was then deployed in 1964.
mwZR TIL King Herod “The Great” was so concerned that no one would mourn his death that he ordered a large group of distinguished men be killed at the time of his death to cause more widespread grief. His Son and Sister never carried out his request.
GYy6E TIL of Gregor MacGregor, a 19th century conman who sold land in a fictional South American country and then sold tickets on a ship to the fictional country. 200 people arrived in the jungle of Nicaragua and most of them died soon after