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TIL Nintendo still sells the playing cards they sold when the company started a hundred years ago. They also sell Go boards!

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jnZQ Today I learned that the Retiarius, a type of gladiator who fought with a net and trident while wearing little armour, was considered effeminate for his use of evasion and entrapment. They were the lowest class of gladiator as a result, despite having the advantage in fights.
7Nab TIL In WWII, a soldier named Don Karkos was hit with shrapnel and blinded his right eye, 64 years later while working at a barn, a horse head butted him in the same spot, threw him against the wall and suddenly his vision was restored.
JEPj TIL a man tried to kill another man on live TV with his magical powers. After several hours, the magical man suggested he never died because the god he worshiped is protecting him. The man replied and said he was an atheist.
EBv0 TIL of Jack the Goat who decided to befriend a newly blinded horse named Charlie. Jack guided Charlie around for 16 years and spared Charlie’s owners from having to put him(Charlie) down.
nLJo TIL That Detective John St. John (Jigsaw John), the man who caught William Bonin, The Freeway Killer, got a confession out of him by writing a fake letter from one of the victims’ mothers begging him to tell her what he did with her son.