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TIL that the controller which was included with the Xbox game "Steel Battalion" features two full-sized joysticks, three foot-pedals, a dial, a lever, multiple lights, forty buttons, and is three feet long.

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1aBj8 TIL that Charlie Chaplin made the Hitler mocking film, "The Great Dictator", in 1940 using his own money because none of the Hollywood studios were comfortable irking the Germans as they had financial relations with them. The film is said to be one of the greatest works of Charlie Chaplin.
0dmyy TIL risk of injury or death from lightning strikes is not minimized by the” lightning position” we were taught
MekNB TIL that the first man to survive a fall off of Niagara falls in a barrel died slipping on an orange peel
nWNRb TIL that in the 1890's, more than 170,000 horses were living and working in New York City. The accumulation of urine, manure and dead horse carcasses created a nasal nightmare. When it rained the accumulated mess flowed freely into the city basements.
gdyy TIL female kangaroos conceive again a few days after giving birth but the new embryo enters a dormant state that lasts until the previous young leaves the pouch