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TIL SEGA arguably spearheaded internet intergration in home consoles; the SEGA Saturn featured both online multiplayer as well as a fully fledged internet browser back in 1995

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4XB5N TIL that’s rats can laugh. It’s inaudible to humans at 50kHz.
KYD0G TIL laboratories practiced mouth pipetting when accessioning specimens “until the 1970s, when cheap mechanical pipettes became available.”
8Gea TIL Linda Hamilton actually picked the locks on her harness and on the door in the mental hospital in Terminator 2
kJl61 TIL that in his will, George Washington left directions to emancipate all of the enslaved people that he owned after the death of Martha Washington. On January 1, 1801, all of the enslaved people he owned were freed. The Emancipation Proclamation was put into act on January 1, 1863, 62 years later.
V458 TIL there are only eight species of bear in the world.