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TIL about Jerry Lawson. He created the first video game cartridges & Channel F console. Atari soon copied.

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j6w1Q TIL that a 1904 Swiss law allows local governments to kill people’s dogs if they don’t pay a “dog tax”
GAwQg TIL in Icelandic folklore there's a cat called Jólaköttur or Yule Cat. It lurks in the snowy countryside during the Christmas season and eats people who do not receive new clothing before Christmas Eve.
lx1A TIL IN 1912, candy manufacturer Clarence Crane invented Life Savers as a “summer candy” that could withstand heat better than chocolate and shaped the candy with a hole to prevent children from choking, due to his own child having choked on a hard candy
4XpXb TIL NASA has a swat team
kWK7 TIL a guy named James Randi will pay US$1,000,000 (One Million US Dollars) to any person who demonstrates any psychic, supernatural, or paranormal ability. It remains unclaimed for 40 years.