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TIL that Bill Gates was so addicted to Minesweeper, he used to sneak into then-Microsoft President Michael Hallman's office after work to play it, as he had uninstalled the game from his computer

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V6LD TIL Seth Rogan is making an R-rated Pixar-style film about “food in a grocery store that believes when you get purchased all your wildest dreams come true. They don’t realize that you get eaten. And its about them slowly realizing what happens in their after life.”
X0wVP TIL about Skywave, a phenomenon in which radio signals "bounce" off the Earth's ionosphere. This mainly applies to AM and short wave radio signals which is why they can reach further distances.
VMNnG TIL Sub-Saharan Africans were the first people to smelt iron
d8Vr7 TIL a French woman, Marie Belmont-Gobert, hid a British soldier in a cramped cupboard in her house from Jan 1915 to the end of WWI in 1918, despite German officers living in her home and socialising in the room the cupboard was in. She received an OBE post-war. Cupboard is in museum in U.K.
GAYZ4 TIL the first stop motion puppet film - The beautiful Leukanida (Film) from 1912 - was created by posing dead insects instead of using hand crafted puppets.