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TIL Atari has a site where you can play all the cool games from the 80s

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9wleQ TIL that Bob Clark, director of A Christmas Story, also directed Black Christmas and the first two Baby Geniuses movies
ADwBx TIL about Mrs Chippy, a male cat that took part in Shackleton's Trans-Antarctic Expedition. Originally thought a female, he was given that name because the crew thought he followed the ship's carpenter, "Chippy" McNish, like an attentive wife. A statue of Mrs Chippy is on McNish's grave.
nAwY TIL: Between 1975 and 2008, the number of products in the average supermarket swelled from an average of 8,948 to almost 47,000
WkK8 TIL the coldest known place in the Universe is on Earth. Scientists have created condensates predicted by Einstein, that are cooled 810 trillionths of a degree F above absolute zero.
Y7XWv TIL George V’s death was purposely expedited by his doctor when he injected the Kings jugular vein with morphine and cocaine. Some have called it euthanasia, others, murder.