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TIL VLC’s icon is a traffic cone because the students who created the media player kept a collection of traffic cones.

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69DNl TIL that the U.S. planned to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon in the 1950s to show military strength during the Cold War. Carl Sagan worked on the calculations. It was called Project A119.
yVbap TIL that in the original Super Mario Bros., you can continue where you left off in the last game by holding A down when you press Start
MBoA TIL merchants were traditionally placed at the bottom of the four-tier social class system in feudal Japan because unlike artisans, farmers and fisherman, merchants weren’t considered productive.
LkRRd TIL that Ivy League schools + sister schools used to take nude photos of all incoming freshmen, supposedly to gauge the severity of scoliosis and etc. The two lead psychologists then tried to use the data to justify their theories on body type and social hierarchy.
RXm4 TIL that the Earth is surrounded by a bubble of bacteria residing in the upper atmosphere