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TIL a family of Turkish villagers naturally walk with a bear crawl and are the sole specimens of natural Quadrupedalism in humans

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9w61G TIL the official spelling of the country Turkey was changed to Türkiye for the UN and the US
aDDZ TIL that the NES gun used in duck hunt worked by you pulling the trigger, making the screen flash, surrounding the ducks (targets) in white and the diode in the gun begin reception. The photodiode in the gun detects the change in light intensity and tells the computer that it’s pointed at a target.
44xN TIL that the Moon was proposed to be the 51st State of the USA
kJ5QW TIL of Roland the Farter, a performer who farted on command for the King and was awarded much land.
0dgQM TIL: In the US they call Heath Robinson contraptions "Rube Goldberg machines"