TIL when Game Boy was first released 1989, the North America version came bundled with only Tetris. Only four other games were available: Allyway, Baseball, Super Mario Land and Tennis. Within ten years more than 1000 games were available.
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Game Boy
1989 portable video game console
TIL the second highest scoring fighter ace with 301 kills, Gerhard Barkhorn, crashed a prototype British Harrier jet fighter in 1965. When being helped from the wreckage he is said to have commented, "Drei hundert und zwei [302]!"
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Gerhard Barkhorn
Gerhard "Gerd" Barkhorn (20 March 1919 – 11 January 1983) was a German military aviator and wing commander in the Luftwaffe during World War II. As a fighter ace, he was the second most successful fighter pilot of all time after fellow pilot Erich Hartmann.…
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TIL That even with an outside temp of -49*F, an igloo can have an internal temp between 19 and 61*F from body-heat, alone.
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Igloo
type of shelter built of snow
TIL King Henry II of France participated in a jousting tournament in 1559 to celebrate the marriage of his daughter. A lance splintered on his helmet and pushed wood into his eye and brain. He died ten days later. His death led to the decline of jousting in France.
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Henry II of France
Henry II (French: Henri II; 31 March 1519 – 10 July 1559) was King of France from 31 March 1547 until his death in 1559. The second son of Francis I and Duchess Claude of Brittany, he became Dauphin of France upon the death of his elder brother Francis in…
TIL: Divers searching for a sunken World War II-era aircraft, instead came across a 15 by 15-foot section of the Challenger Space Shuttle 37 years after it exploded off the Florida coast. After the explosion, the salvage effort had recovered 47% of the shuttle.
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Smithsonian Magazine
Divers Accidentally Find a Piece of the Challenger Space Shuttle
A documentary film crew stumbled across a section of the destroyed spacecraft that measures at least 15 by 15 feet
TIL: That people who experience discomfort watching cringe have higher levels of empathy.
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TIL: TLC was the first all-female group to sell 10 million copies of an album - CrazySexyCool. But they weren't cool about making $50,000 each for the album while the record company got $75 million. So, they held Arista Records President Clive Davis hostage until the NYPD intervened.
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BBC News
TLC: How we made (and survived) CrazySexyCool
The band break down their multi million-selling album, and the drama behind it, as it turns 25.
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TIL that the “myth of the clean Wehrmacht,” the notion that the regular German army wasn’t involved in Nazi war crimes, was promoted by US leadership to facilitate German rearmament amid Cold War tensions.
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Myth of the clean Wehrmacht
post World War II myth
TILstars have been found nearly halfway to Andromeda Galaxy more than 1 million light-years away from us. For comparison Milky Way’s thin disk is about 100,000 light-years across and Andromeda is 2.5 million light years away.
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Astronomy Magazine
Milky Way stars found nearly halfway to Andromeda Galaxy
The results suggest that there may not be as much “empty space” between the Milky Way and Andromeda as you might think.
TIL Dr. Phil lost his license to practise psychology in 2006. Therefore, all guests on his TV show must sign a contract stating they are only there to receive "advice" from an individual, not a psychologist.
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Phil McGraw
American television personality
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r/ModCoord
r/ModCoord: Moderator Coordination - Leveraging technologies for the improvement of moderator project communications and coordination
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TIL that only two people survived a fall through a cumulonimbus cloud. One of the cases suffered severe frostbite and decompression injuries and was trapped in the cloud for more than 30 minutes.
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William Rankin
Survivor of fall through a thunderstorm cloud
TIL that rapper Redman outed MTV Cribs as completely fake and revealed that MTV would routinely rent out mansions to make guests appear wealthier than they were.
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Hip Hop Hero
The real story behind Redman and his MTV Cribs
Redman's crib on MTV.
TIL that Pete Best, original drummer for the Beatles, released an album in 1965 called "Best of the Beatles" that contained no Beatles music, causing him to be investigated for consumer fraud. The case was dropped because no fraud had been committed. He was Best, of the Beatles
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Pete Best
British musician, former member of the Beatles
TIL people that are night owls have an inner clock that runs in cycles longer than 24 h. Like this, their rhythm gets delayed everyday, making it hard to fall asleep and get out of bed.
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WebMD
Get in Touch With Your Circadian Rhythm
Your body really does march to its own beat. Learn how your circadian rhythm drives your sleep patterns and other ways your body works.
TIL about Berea College. Founded by abolitionists in 1855, it's what's called a "work college" -- every student has a job on campus alongside their classes. This keeps costs down and no student pays tuition. There are nine work colleges in the U.S. where students pay little or no tuition.
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TIL that, after Josef Mengele was exhumed and positively identified in Brazil, the Brazilian government repeatedly asked his family to take his remains back to Germany. They refused.
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Josef Mengele
Nazi officer and physician (1911-1979)
TIL there is no blue or green pigment present in the human eye. Eyes appear blue or green due to Rayleigh scattering, the same phenomenon that makes the sky appear blue. For this reason, blue eyes and green eyes can appear to change color depending on lighting.
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Eye color
Eye color is a polygenic phenotypic trait determined by two factors: the pigmentation of the eye's iris and the frequency-dependence of the scattering of light by the turbid medium in the stroma of the iris.: 9
TIL that in 2017, a 5th grade boy’s basketball team was told to remove two girls from their team, or forfeit the rest of the season. The team unanimously decided to forfeit.
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ESPN.com
Youth team forfeits season over order to exclude girls
A Catholic Youth Organization basketball team in New Jersey decided it would rather give up the rest of its season than play without its two female teammates.
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TIL in 1998, a preservation group began restoring Ben Franklin’s residence in London. During their rehabilitation work, they discovered a secret, windowless room under his garden containing the remains of 15 people.
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Smithsonian Magazine
Why Was Benjamin Franklin’s Basement Filled With Skeletons?
Repairs on Franklin's old London house turned up 1200 pieces of bone from at least 15 people
TIL Ancient pottery from West Africa have been chemically analyzed, showing organic residue of their diets. The Nok people from 3,500 years ago enjoyed quality nutrition in greens such as African eggplant, okra, cowpea and bombax, and added flavors to starch-based staples
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The Conversation
Chemical traces in ancient West African pots show a diet rich in plants
The preparation of ancient meals in prehistoric West Africa combined vegetables, pulses, tubers and, possibly, herbs and spices.