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TIL the Game Boy was only discontinued in 2003.

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E1yVd TIL That at the Battle of Shiloh in 1862, many of the soldiers were found to have wounds glowing blue and were healing faster than others. They called it Angel Glow. 140 years later 2 teens discovered the cause, a bioluminescent bacterium called Photorhabadus luminesens which inhibits pathogens
Wkon4 TIL That pure bred dogs are vastly more likely to have a genetic disorder than mixed breeds.
pYvwe TIL in 2022 biologists determined there were 6 species of reindeer (caribou) instead of 1
BrY4b TIL over a century before independence was declared, on the 6th of June 1671 John Evelyn, councillor of the Foreign Plantations for Charles II, regarded New England "a people almost upon the very brink of renouncing any dependence on the Crown"
9Zpp TIL that since the 11th century there have only been two cases of British royal marriages where the couple have been unrelated.