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TIL, the arcade shooter Area 51 saved Atari from the brink of bankruptcy and went on to become one of the most successful arcade games of all time

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KOy56 TIL after Warren Harding’s Teapot Dome scandal the House and Senate were given subpoena power for review of tax records of any US citizen without regard to elected or appointed position, nor subject to White House interference.
p0wA TIL a team of Material Scientists at the University of Texas Dallas have developed artificial muscle that is 100X stronger than organic muscle and is constructed out of ordinary fishing line.
0dMGA TIL of Dora Richter, the first transgender woman to have received GRS in 1922/1931 in Germany. She had survived the nazi regime despite the destruction of the sexual research institute and lived to 1966
W7JZo TIL that cotton, bearing similarities to wool, was once thought to be harvested from a plant described as "a wonderful tree which bore tiny lambs on the endes of its branches. These branches were so pliable that they bent down to allow the lambs to feed when they are hungry"
xVerB TIL Hua Chi, a Chinese Monk who has been praying for up to 3,000 times a day for 20 years in the same spot, has left indentations of his footprints 1.2 inches deep into the wood where he stands.