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TIL: The Nintendo Game Boy (1989) ran at 60fps
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TIL that only 5 human beings remain alive who were born in the 1800s.
JMOl
TIL American eggs would be illegal in a British supermarket because they are washed and British eggs would be illegal in a US supermarket because they are unwashed
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TIL in the earlier versions of Little Red Riding Hood, the wolf has Little Red undress and get in bed with him, but she tricks the wolf into sparing her by saying she has to poop, thus needing to get out of bed.
epWkL
TIL the International Phonetic Association, the organization who developed the International Phonetic Alphabet, was originally called 'Dhi Fonètik Tîtcerz' Asóciécon'
Wwx4
TIL that during the Civil War, Abe let wealthy men pay 300 dollars to avoid the draft. This led to the NYC riots, “the largest civil insurrection in American history, aside from the Civil War itself.”