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TIL the Atari 2600 launched at the price of $786 in 2016 dollars

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Brank TIL of bog butter—an ancient waxy substance often found buried in peat bogs that was used as a way of preserving butter in ancient Ireland. The butter would gain flavor notes from its surroundings that were namely described as “gamey,” “moss,” “funky,” “pungent,” and “salami.”
OGVEL TIL that the names of the Hogwarts Houses were first scribbled on the back of an Airplane Vomit Bag
D1Wbv TIL that iconic scare from 2002's The Ring wasn't Amber Tamblyn in makeup, playing dead. It was actually a body double created by the now retired effects legend Rick Baker who photographed Tamblyn from multiple angles to make the figure look as convincing as possible.
4XM1J TIL Human zoos, also called ethnological expositions, were 19th- and 20th-century public exhibitions of humans, usually in an erroneously labeled "natural" or "primitive" state.
78ZXr TIL the Supreme Court overturned a ban on 'virtual child porn' back in 2002.