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TIL The Lion King game led to the creation of Direct X.

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rR0Md TIL about "pearling"; the act of inserting small beads or smoothed pieces of domino under the skin of one's penis, commonly done in prison.
BgbZx TIL in 2015 an unemployed 30-year old Princeton grad killed his rich father when his allowance was cut down from $1,000/week to $300. He received a 30 year prison sentence
R71ml TIL The birthday-number effect is the subconscious tendency of people to prefer the numbers in the date of their birthday over other numbers. First reported in 1997 by Japanese psychologists Shinobu Kitayama and Mayumi Karasawa, the birthday-number effect has been replicated in various countries. ????
Yp17B TIL the US built a secret nuclear launch facility in Greenland which was kept a secret even from Denmark. When the ice sheet melts, close to 200000 liters of chemical waste will be released in the environment.
wNJ1 TIL bananas are actually used for scale… for measuring radioactivity