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TIL a duel between three people is called a truel
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TIL that Nintendo had produced a physical toy version of duck hunt in 1976, a full 8 Years before the original game came out
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TIL that once, in 1910, the Ottoman Empire sent 80,000 stray dogs to a desert island, where they quickly became feral and ended up cannibalizing each other. This event is known as the "Hayırsızada Incident"
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TIL that during prohibition, an exemption was made for whiskey prescribed by a doctor and sold through a pharmacy. The Walgreens pharmacy chain grew from 20 retail stores to almost 400 during this period, from 1920 to 1933.
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TIL about LIDAR, similar to SONAR and RADAR, this technology bounces light off of the Earth to map features of the land. Even peering through dense forest, it's changing how all sorts of fields of study see the land's topography.
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TIL 'That 70s Show' aired the first kiss between two men on network TV in the US