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XdPX TIL the crew of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station have an annual winter tradition where they watch all three versions of “The Thing”, a horror film about an alien lifeform that attacks researchers on an Antarctic base.
XEWgk TIL the longest-running video game series is, by far: The Oregon Trail. First published in 1971 by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium, it beats out the next series (Pac-Man) by almost a decade.
awVRN TIL an attempted assassin armed with two pistols had them both misfire and the very not assassinated President Andrew Jackson beat him with a cane
PYdPE TIL A decade before the Internet went mainstream, French citizens were interacting via Minitel, a computer network open to anyone with a telephone
YpNYW TIL spectators at the Indy 500 used to erect huge scaffolding towers for viewing until one collapsed killing 2 and injuring 82.