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TIL in North Korea, this year isn’t 2020; it is the year 108
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TIL: In the original game Space Invaders, the game increasing speed as you killed aliens was due to the processor being able to render graphics faster as less aliens were on screen. This was an unintended “feature” they decided to keep as a gameplay mechanic.
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TIL from 1900 to 1920, tug of war was a sanctioned Olympic sport.
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TIL Spaceballs wasn't the the first Star Wars parody, a 13 minute short titled Hardware Wars released in 1978 was the first. With a production cost of $8k and box office of $1million it even beat the earnings ratio of Star Wars. During a 1999 interview George Lucas named it his favorite.
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TIL that future stars Jill St. John, Natalie Wood, and Stefanie Powers were members of a children's ballet company together. All three would later marry or co-star with actor Robert Wagner.
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TIL Retired AFL legend Tom Hafey wakes up at 5.20am every morning and does an 8km run, 250 push ups and 700 crunches. He is 82.