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TIL: The Nintendo Game Boy (1989) ran at 60fps

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9wvP6 TIL I learned that in 2012, in an attempt to reduce the number of people ending their lives by jumping off of South Korea's Mapo Bridge, the bridge was renamed The Bridge of Life and was decorated with life affirming messages. The amount of people jumping actually increased the following year.
58r9 TIL that because David Letterman was a C student at Ball State, he now funds a creative telecommunications scholarship that does not take grades into account.
JJyQ TIL when super-wealthy heir, John du Pont, shot and killed Olympic gold medalist Dave Schultz in cold blood and in front of multiple witnesses, he returned to his mansion and discussed terms of surrender on the phone with the police for two days.
D1aDj TIL in 1791, France became the first West European country to decriminalize homosexual acts between consenting adults
QNvVL TIL that why most shopping malls have this kind of air door that blast you with high velocity air flow when you enter. It is actually called an air door or air curtain that is used to prevent air, contaminants, flying insects from moving from one open space to another and keep the temp maintained.