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

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6oGJ TIL Schools that offer students more choice—more elective courses, more ways to complete requirements, a bigger range of potential friends, more freedom to select seats in a classroom—are more likely to be rank-ordered, cliquish, and segregated by race, age, gender and social status.
KYlWJ TIL that Gall wasps lay their eggs inside growing acorns which cause abnormal bumpy growths on the outside of the acorn while also protecting the Gall wasp larvae inside throughout the winter
dwDd TIL the award for 10 consecutive kills with a shotgun in Halo 3 was titled “Cheneymania!” before it was changed to “Open Season!”
WJ4B TIL that the Israeli postal service receives more than 1,000 letters addressed to “God” every year. Instead of disposing or archiving them, the undeliverable mail department opens them, and puts them between the cracks of the Western Wall.
VZxD TIL that there is an area in the mid-Pacific ocean called White Shark Cafe where sharks travel to and loiter for no identified reason despite there being little food there and it being a sharks’ equivalent of a desert.