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TIL that Japan already had HDTV in the 1990s, way before anywhere else

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J1ak1 TIL 3D graphics in computers are optical illusion , since the screen is 2D its all about prescriptive ( like 3D optical illusions and drawings on papers or walls)
EgJpV TIL in an unusual case of atavism, there is only one recorded case in medical literature of a congenital os penis AKA baculum. The baculum is otherwise absent from humans (where erection is achieved and sustained through blood pressure) though it is present in the other great apes.
1VaX TIL 90% of the world has been invaded by Britain at some point in history
p8NpG TIL that Mao Zedong organised the Chinese Land Reform Movement in which millions of landlords were murdered by their own tenants.
nNQb TIL a woman’s scalp itched so bad she scratched a hole through to her brain