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TIL Minecraft is the 3rd best-selling game of all time, after Tetris and Wii Sports

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OodLe TIL, Joey Cramer, who starred in the movie Flight of the Navigator as a child, robbed a bank in 2016 with the intent of getting sent to prison in order to get himself off drugs and save his own life.
loGvA TIL Thomas Edison was considered to be troubled at learning by administrators. When his mother got thus report she pulled him out of school and decided to home school him. She believed he just saw things differently than others and needed more attention.
BgK7e TIL the only animal considered to display true tripedalism (moving using 3 limbs) is the parrot. Specifically, their head is considered their third limb while climbing
5Yxpp TIL of Quaker Guns, a deception tactic in warfare where logs, typically painted black, would be used as fake cannons to deceive enemy forces. In one instance in WWII, fake machine guns were created from a pair of broomsticks painted black mounted at the tail end of a fuselage to simulate tail guns.
xwM0 TIL that there is always at least one handgun on board the International Space Station.