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TIL Cross Dressing Ken doll was an employee prank

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1rJV TIL: The incredibly unrealistic looking computer system in Jurassic Park is, in fact, a real thing.
KODQ9 TIL The inventor of the Game Boy, Gunpei Yokoi, was originally Nintendo’s janitor. The President of the company happened to walk by and was impressed by a toy he created out of boredom, leading to an illustrious career.
d87x7 TIL The first gun in Canadian history was a matchlock musket introduced by Sir Humphrey Gilbert when he arrived in Newfoundland in 1583. The first guns made in Canada date back to the 1830s when William Gurd of York built guns that had locks converted from flintlocks
AW77 TIL that David McCallum, the actor who plays Dr Mallard on NCIS, originally wrote and recorded a song called ‘The Edge’ which is today best known as the sample for Dr Dre’s 'Next Episode’
xVQ7D TIL that the first aircraft autopilot was developed in 1912 and demonstrated in 1914 - and in 1947 a transatlantic flight, including takeoff and landing, was made completely under autopilot control