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TIL The Game Boy ran at 60 fps

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MLDB TIL that NASA has created a crop called dwarf wheat that contains more nutrients, manages to germinate faster and is smaller than conventional wheat. These crops were successfully grown in space aboard the ISS and could serve as a source of food for future astronauts.
gMNXA TIL is everyone in the US boiled their pasta in half the water, we would save a half-million barrels of oil a year of energy.
7m5X TIL an Ohio man called police in a panic because he thought he had smoked too much marijuana. Police found him in the fetal position, surrounded by Doritos, Pepperidge Farm Goldfish, and Chips Ahoy cookies. He was fine, and police did not charge the man with any crime.
x6Veg TIL author H.G. Wells married his cousin in 1891. The couple later separated when H.G. Wells fell in love with one of his students, Amy Catherine Robbins. This entire period was the most productive in H.G. Wells' whole writing career producing The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, among others.
4XaDb TIL if you can compress the earth into the size of a ping pong ball, it became a black hole.