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TIL The QBert arcade game had a special "knocker" inside the cabinet that would make a physical "knock" when QBert fell off the stage (landing inside the arcade cabinet.)

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LQEjV TIL a Reading, PA Funereal Home has kept the mummified corpse of “Stoneman Willie” for 128-years, and he will finally be laid to rest this fall.
M7AVV TIL airports hire crews of "birdmen" that use methods like horns, sirens, lasers, and pyrotechnics to ward off large groups of birds. They even intentionally remove horizontal branches from nearby trees to discourage large migrations from settling near the runways.
P6xG TIL In 1977, Maureen Weston of the U.K. voluntarily stayed up for a whopping 449 hours(18 days), and made it into the 1978 Guinness Book of World Records. But because staying awake for such long stretches poses so many health risks, Guinness chose to no longer acknowledge sleep deprivation records.
4XPjb TIL That Jeff Lew, the creator of Killer Bean Forever worked on The Matrix Reloaded
9YmyD TIL Tame Impala is a single person named Kevin Parker who writes, plays, and produces all the recorded music, but tours with a group of other musicians to form the full live band.