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TIL The Game Boy ran at 60 fps

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epwg6 TIL A jilted taxidermist killed his ex-fiancée by hiding an explosive in the stuffed body of her beloved sky terrier.
B6d TIL that a high school girl became the first person to fold paper in half 12 times. She also derived the mathematical equation that describes the limit of paper folding
VxKG TIL that during Vietnam, the US would play a soundtrack listed as the ‘Ghost tape’. It would play funeral songs and voices supposedly from the dead warning the soldiers to surrender or suffer the same fate.
vm4R TIL a German man has been travelling around the world non-stop on a bike for over 50 years.
WkQ4 TIL “pie à la mode” was named by a professor who went around to restaurants ordering it by that name