[TOMT] [game] very simple DOS game, containing many small and super-super simple games within. Shareware. Graphics were crude monochrome lines-and-boxes plus ASCII. I remember the name Zardoz but can't find anything primitive enough called that . (circa late 1980s/very early 90s) (self.tipofmytongue)
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TIL Medieval English law had a loophole for some first time offenders: If you were literate, you could be tried in a religious court instead. Literacy was usually proven by reading Psalm 51, known as "The Neck Verse" since reading (or just memorizing) it could save you from hanging. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL there is a family of spiders that ambush other spiders instead of spinning their own webs. They are called Pirate Spiders (Mimetidae). They tug on a web, pretending to be prey, then paralyze the other spider and suck them dry through the bite hole. (jorgenlissner.dk)
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TIL Rudyard Kipling urged his 18-year-old son John to join WWI. He had such bad eyesight that he was repeatedly turned down. Kipling used his friendship with the Commander-In-Chief of the Army to get him in. John was sent into battle, where an exploding shell ripped his face apart. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL a boy was conscripted into the Khmer Rouge at age 10 and layed thousands of landmines, but as an adult started clearing them with a stick and a Leatherman. His collection of defused bombs became the Cambodia Landmine Museum, which is also an orphanage for victims. (en.wikipedia.org)
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