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TIL The face and developer of Nintendo's "Brain Age" series, Ryuta Kawashima, has turned down all royalties from the video games, over $11 million, and put it toward brain research.

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nemaG TIL during the Vietnam War, the U.S. carried out Operation Popeye, a "cloud-seeding" mission to stimulate clouds in Vietnam to increase rainfall and lengthen the monsoon season. After the operation was declassified in 1974, the United Nations banned the weaponization of weather.
EgJ8W TIL Ancient Egyptians May Have Used Opium and Wine as the World's First Anesthesia—Long Before Modern Medicine!
XAeX TIL: Richard Feynman was divorced for doing too much calculus
7KJO TIL of the “Turnspit Dog” a now extinct dog that was short-legged, long-bodied and bred to run on a wheel that would turn meat over a fire. They were also used as foot warmers in church and Queen Victoria kept retired turnspit dogs as pets.
R5wg9 TIL I learned about the precursor to the BASIC programming language: the Dartmouth Oversimplified Programming Experiment ... it's DOPE