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TIL The 2nd controller on NES, controls the duck in Duck Hunt

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E7Qo TIL that gingko trees are so hardy that six are known to have survived the atom bomb and are still growing in Hiroshima—they also smell like barf.
YpjZx TIL Olga Tokarczuk, 2018 Nobel Prize winner for Literature got death threats for writing her magnum opus, 'The Books of Jacob'
drnK TIL the film ‘Top Gun’ was made in collaboration with the Pentagon, enlistment spiked when it was released, the Navy set up recruitment tables at theaters playing the movie, and polls soon showed rising confidence in the military.
YpXXA TIL Pearl Jam discovered Ticketmaster was adding a service charge to all their concert tickets without informing the band. The band then created their own outdoor stadiums for the fans and testified against Ticketmaster to the United States Department of Justice
OEDe TIL Richard Dawkins coined the word meme in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene.