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TIL that the speedrunners of Earthworm Jim 3D have figured out in order to have the game crash less. You just pirate the CDROM instead of playing the digital store version.

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neKnG TIL Someone revived the dead ancient Sumerian language in the form of a 4,100 year old poem. “The Epic of Gilgamesh” played on the Sumerian long neck gishgudi.
7NZx TIL Two Maneless 9ft long Man-Eating Lions ate over 135 workers on the Kenya-Uganda railway in 1898
xn4w TIL that one of the least-remembered US Presidents, Millard Fillmore, was effectively sold as a child by his destitute father into a kind of indentured servitude (bordering on child slavery). He eventually bought himself from his master for $30 and walked 100 miles to his home at age 14
4XNbR TIL not only did John Logie Baird invent the black & white television, but he also invented colour television and transatlantic television broadcasts
R71D4 TIL Kodak once made crayons