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TIL: Sega Master System and Sega Genesis controllers are backwards-compatible and can be used with the Atari 2600

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ZNxY TIL the UN put the cost of solving World Hunger at $30 billion a year. That’s less than $100 a year or around $7 a month per person in the United States.
b7Ya TIL that a father searching for his missing daughter was photographed–and in the far background of the photo his missing daughter is seen.
e0v1n TIL that shipwreck hunter Tommy G. Thompson is imprisoned and fined 1,000$ per day for not revealing where he hides the gold he found and had promised to split with investors
epnB4 TIL about Abul-Abbas. An elephant sent by the caliph Harun al-rashid ibn Muhammad al-Mahdi to the holy Roman emperor Charlemagne as a gift that symbolized the beginning of Abbasid-Carolingian relations. The elephant died in 810 just as charlemagne crossed the rhine.
8a7DX TIL About Thomas Fuller an illiterate enslaved African whose Math Genius shocked Colonists, capable of quickly solving math problems in his head he earned the title of “The Mental Calculator” serving as a figurehead of Africans not being mentally inferior to Whites further abolitionist efforts