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TIL Space Invaders was so popular in Japan it caused a national coin shortage

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8Wja TIL: Einstein explained Relativity as “When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute—and it’s longer than any hour. That’s relativity.”
nWaxd TIL that cryovolcanoes exist!
QNXAk TIL that in 2022 SpaceX's Falcon family rockets flew 62 times, accounting for over 3/4ths of American orbital launches(87) and nearly 1/3rd of global launches(187)
NBgb TIL that in the making of the movie “Monsters’ Inc.”, Sully had 2,320,413 individually animated hairs. It took 11 to 12 hours to animate a single frame featuring him.
gr5VL TIL James Caan ordered a hit (non lethal) on Joe Pesci in 1982 over an unpaid $8000 hotel bill