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TIL Microsoft Flight Simulator is 3 years older than Microsoft Windows

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ypQJ TIL Charles Redheffer was an American inventor who claimed to have invented a perpetual motion machine, He was later exposed when an engineer found a hidden cord that led to an upper floor. Upstairs he found an old man who was turning a hand-crank with one hand and eating bread with the other
yQxXl TIL that Marvel, DC, and other major comic book publishers adopted the "Comics Code" in 1954. Under the Code, criminals could not be depicted sympathetically, and police, judges, and government officials could not be shown as corrupt. The code was revised over time and was abandoned in the 2000s.
jNLEa TIL that 21st century humans grow taller, and reach sexual maturity earlier than ever before in recorded history
VMww0 TIL that many countries used "Immurement" as a form of punishment, where the victim was locked in a box and left to starve to death. The latest usage was in 1914, where a Mongolian woman left in a wooden crate died of dehydration.
gGx8 TIL Sum 41’s album, Chuck, was named after a peacekeeper that saved the band (by acting as a human shield) from mortar fire.