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TIL: Playing narrative based video games enhances literacy

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Y71AA TIL A group of raccoons is called a Gaze.
KOxxw TIL when he was in fourth grade, Bill Watterson wrote to Charles Schulz, the creator of “Peanuts”, expressing his desire to become a professional cartoonist. Much to the young boy’s surprise, the cartoonist responded, encouraging Watterson to go on to create “Calvin and Hobbes.”
x6Mo7 TIL that the US government would take federal prisoners on "Diesel therapy" where they just fly them through the country for days, or even weeks
VME8Z TIL in 1979 there was an unexplainable nuclear explosion near the Prince Edward Islands. It was detected by the Vela Hotel Satellite, but still has yet to be claimed.
9VO7 TIL The bananas we buy in stores and supermarkets are genetically identical clones, all descended from one banana. These bananas are seedless and sterile; natural bananas are short, fat, and have huge seeds.