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TIL EA Games holds 30+ patents to accessibility technology in video games with the promise to not enforce them and to keep them available to the public

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grAYX TIL researchers discovered the oldest known sentence written in the first alphabet, Canaanite, on a head-lice comb believed by scientists to have been made around 1700 BCE. The inscription on the luxury item reads "may this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard."
b99yN Looking for a new country to call home for a while? Go east.
nWkOB TIL That Robert Downey Jr. was the first ever voice actor for Mr. peanut.
axVJ TIL an abandoned water tower on top of a vacant New York City building was turned into a secret rooftop speakeasy. Accessible by ladder from below, the cozy nightclub featured live music and drinks.
ADJEg TIL: That the majority of bees dance to communicate with each other the location of sweet nectar. Yet there is a significant minority of bees that ignore the dance instructions and choose to explore their own paths. These contrarian bees are better at finding food than those that follow the crowd!