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TIL some historians blame Atari for the Video Game Crash of 1983. Atari figured anything would sell, and even tried to produce a Rubik’s cube video game.

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OkB1 TIL a monkey’s fist knot is used as the weight in heaving a line between ship and dock. Recognizing their potential, drunken sailors began using them as melee weapons in street and bar fights with the knot eventually being adopted by street gangs of the 19th century.
E6o0 TIL Computers can’t generate true random numbers (without measuring external physical phenomena like flipping a coin or cosmic background radiation)
OobOL TIL about food scientist Robert Baker who invented the chicken nugget in a laboratory at Cornell University in the early 1960s. He successfully created a "chicken stick" that would retain form when freezing or frying. Instead of patenting the invention, he sent the recipe to hundreds of companies.
RJB8 TIL A company called Deep Optics has developed “Omnifocal” Glasses that automatically focus in real time, allowing the wearer to look wherever he or she wants without limiting the field of view or compromising clarity.
LQDnp TIL that basketball star Magic Johnson claims that he invented the "high five" while at college in the 1970s.