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TIL Hideo Kojima, creator of Metal Gear Solid, wanted to coat the disks of his 1988 game Snatcher in a paint that would smell like blood when heated in the computer, to recreate the smell of a murder scene

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YpDn7 TIL: A Hungarian man wrote a book on how to raise a genius, raising three daughters with the methods he pioneered, using chess as an example. His youngest daughter is Judit Polgar, the strongest female chess player of all time.
05oL TIL that dumping golf balls into the sea is outlawed because the plastic does not break down. A professor at the University of Maine used ground-up lobster shells and other materials to develop biodegradable golf balls. These balls are intended for use on cruise ships or driving ranges by the ocean.
rN6R4 TIL That there was a game show that was so terrible that it's second (& last) episode was a 30-minute long apology for the first episode
mMrP TIL Joel Youngblood is the only player in MLB to get hits for two different teams in two different cities on the same day.
kOyRB TIL that the most successful predator in Africa is the African wild dog. If a pack targets a prey, there’s an 85% chance they’ll bring it down successfully