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TIL the game Candyland was invented by a woman during the polio pandemic. The woman, Eleanor Abbott, was recovering in hospital she created the game to entertain the children in her hospital wing as they were left by family members for long periods of time to recover.

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Wme9 TIL following the 1960 Chilean Earthquake, A 5 year old boy was killed as a human sacrifice ritual. The men who murdered him were released from jail after 2 years. A judge ruled that those involved had “acted without free will, driven by an irresistible natural force of ancestral tradition.”
b9Zr0 TIL, There was not one single bank robbery in Americas first 80 years of existing, so they virtually had no security. Then an explosion of robberies.
yjBe TIL early humans literally ran their prey to death
X0AnE TIL the co-founder of Encyclopædia Britannica was a 4'6" tall Scot with crooked legs and an enormous nose that he would sometimes augment with a papier-mache version. He deliberately rode the tallest horse available in Edinburgh, dismounting by a ladder to the cheers of onlookers.
N8Kb TIL Adam Sandler won both the worst actor and actress Razzie awards for his movie Jack and Jill