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TIL that the second controller can control the ducks in Duck Hunt

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Kmka TIL that the color now known as “School bus yellow” was especially formulated for use on school buses in North America because this yellow is noticed quicker in peripheral vision than any other color.
ne4yG TIL about one of the rare cases of the Lazarus Syndrome. Walter Williams, 78, from Lexington, Mississippi, declared by a coroner at his home on 26 February 2014. Once at a funeral home, he was found to be moving. The next day he was well enough to be talking with family, but died fifteen days later.
6XR8 TIL 71 people died in a fire on January 13, 1939. In Australia it’s what we remember as ‘Black Friday’.
Zp8no TIL in the 2nd round of the 1977 Badminton World Championships, Flemming Delfs was disqualified for arriving too late to the court before the deciding game but his opponent Ray Stevens refused to accept victory on a walkover. Delfs won that match and later ended up winning the tournament.
EEO0 TIL Alfred Nobel invented dynamites. And when he was mistakenly declared dead in 1888, newspapers published obituaries that stated that “the merchant of death is dead.” Ashamed to leave such a legacy, he left the money he made from dynamites to celebrate humanity; thus created the Nobel Prize.