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TIL Osama Bin Laden played Nintendo games while in hiding

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VpeB TIL Finland’s men’s hockey team currently includes the oldest player (Teemu Selänne b.1970) and the youngest player (Aleksander Barkov, Jr. b.1995). Teemu Selänne started playing in the NHL three years before Aleksander Barkov, Jr. was born.
9wAxQ TIL in 1903, a US Senator from Alabama proposed a plan that will "encourage" African-Americans to settle in the Philippines. Which was recently acquired from Spain.
v1B8r TIL In the Town of Green Bank WV it is illegal to use any WiFi and cellphones.
5Yo1B TIL in 1997 the IBM supercomputer “Big Blue” was able to beat Garry Kasparov, the world champion of chess, at his own game in a best two out of three match. This marked the first time in history that artificial intelligence was actually catching up to humans.
Amgw TIL: “Generational Curses” may be a real thing. There was a study where mice were given a small shock to the foot at the same time as the smell of acetophenone. After 10 days, they mated. The children mice inherited a fear of the odor even though they had never been exposed to it before.