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TIL President James Garfield could write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other hand simultaneously

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QJvok Til there is an unlicenced game called " Baby Boomer" for Nintendo 1989. You can have 2 players a gun and controller. The baby boomer dies if anything touches him.
6Eanm TIL about Jean baptiste Kim who defected from South korea because his family faced incarceration.After being a french citizen he worked for the North korean authorities for 11 years, and served as the foreign correspondent for North korean newspaper Rodong shinmun.
68lX TIL vehicle clocks gain time by overcompensating for start-up time power failures on ignition, resulting in cumulatively inaccurate time keeping.
9j9X TIL in 1851, we had measuring tools with a precision of one millionth of an inch.
PY9WJ TIL that only 3 of the 15 highest grossing movies from the 1980s haven't been given a sequel, prequel or turned into a franchise. Those movies are E.T, Tootsie, and Rain Man.