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TIL that France banned mentions of Twitter and Facebook on TV and radio, as in “Follow us on Twitter” or “Like us on Facebook” because they were deemed as promotion and unfair to other sites

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AN6N7 TIL: Gunpei Yokoi was a legendary game designer at Nintendo who designed the GameBoy and produced Metroid. His design philosophy was "Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology" which emphasizes fun novel gameplay over new tech. He died after getting hit by a 2nd car when he exited to inspect damage.
woE0o TIL some zoos give out "Gorrila Glasses" to visitors to prevent Gorrilas from getting aggressive due to prolonged eye contact
Vxbm TIL - Empty skies after 9/11 caused a measured change in temps due to lack of jet contrails in the sky
bo8Z TIL that if California was a separate nation it would have the 8th largest economy in the world. In 1999 it would have ranked 6th.
xVlP0 TIL that the detonation of a suicide vest will often peel the face off the bomber and launch it, intact, away from the blast. This can be very helpful in identifying the bomber.