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TIL movies for Portal and Half Life have been announced

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R5QR4 TIL by the late 16th century it was common for mounted knights to wield wheel-lock pistols while clad in armor
pmab TIL a belief that the eye “recorded” the last image seen before death was widespread in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the process of retrieving the image is called ‘Optography’.
ea6n TIL the scientific name for the western lowland gorilla is “gorilla gorilla gorilla”
VZB8 TIL that the analysis of the camera of the Surveyor 3 lunar landing probe, which was brought back by the crew of Apollo 12 in 1969, two years after it landed, showed that bacteria that had entered it during manufacturing had survived the lunar conditions.
Gyr7 TIL that Iceland has the oldest existing parliamentary system in the world. It is over 1000 years old.