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TIL there are less than 1 million slot machines in the now-US, while there are over 4 million Pachinko machines in Japan.

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mxV5x The first photograph taken on the moon by Neil Armstrong featured a trash bag
5YypR TIL about The Peterloo Massacre (Monday 16 August 1819, St Peter's Field, Manchester, Lancashire, England) . One of it's direct consequences was the foundation of the Manchester Guardian newspaper in 1821 ("The Guardian", in present days).
xVEww TIL that 18 century mathematician Carl Gauss knew he was ahead of his time, and would purposefully withhold huge mathematical discoveries so he didn’t have to waste his time arguing with everyone who wasn’t smart enough to understand it.
nerQb TIL after being shot and stabbed multiple times during his assassination, Alexei Nikolaevich, the heir to the Russian Empire throne, survived until the assassins found precious gems in between his shirt and tunic protecting him.
R5W6l TIL that Ada Lovelace, regarded as the world's first computer programmer, is actually the daughter of poet Lord Byron!!