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TIL a 1981 arcade in Chicago put a camera in one of their machines so players who got a high score could put their picture on the high score screen. It lasted one day before a guy used it to take a picture of his junk

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8w4P TIL that Nestlé is draining developing countries to produce its bottled water, destroying countries’ natural resources before forcing its people to buy their own water back.
AVkx TIL There’s a rule in soccer/football that says if a player kicks the ball into his own goal on a direct free-kick, the opposing team is awarded a corner kick and not a goal
Z89YY TIL in 1975, a Soviet naval officer led a mutiny onboard a frigate with the aim of toppling the government of Brezhnev. It failed after a standoff with half of the Soviet Baltic fleet, but an article about it inspired an insurance salesman named Tom Clancy to write his book, The Hunt for Red October
RP6Q TIL that the gene that was bred into tomatoes by commercial farmers to give them a uniform color had the unintended result of preventing internal sugar reactions that give tomatoes flavor. This mutation (and lack of flavor) has been bred into almost all commercial American tomatoes.
AEx7 TIL On Aug. 16, 2013, Google Incorporated suffered an outage for five minutes. All of its services, including Google Search, YouTube and Google Drive, experienced this outage. During that brief time window, the world’s Internet traffic dropped by a monstrous 40%.