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TIL people used to download games from the radio frequencies. Radio Belgrade broadcasted about 150 games

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W7vvX TIL about the Hanoi incident where a man lived after his hand was inside a particle accelerator while it was on. This incident sparked international attention to the dangers of using foreign translated instructions in experiments involving radiation.
xVgZ5 TiL that Candian singer/songwriter Lawrence "Gowan" , known for such hits as "Strange Animal" and "Criminal Mind", is currently the lead singer of Styx.
nexAG TIL The Devil's Cigar is a fungus that strangely only exists in small area of Texas and Japan separated by 11,000 km the two populations have been separated for at least nineteen million years. It looks like a cigar, hisses, releases clouds resembling smoke, then splits open into a flower shape.
0w001 TIL Most people have a tendency to underestimate the severity of potential punishments, which can make it difficult to effectively deter crimes
mxDPv TIL Glaucoma is almost always caused by too much pressure inside one or both eyes. People don’t typically experience symptoms until the optic nerve has already been damaged and glaucoma usually occurs later in life, but it can happen at any age