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TIL Microplastics in Fresh Water Are Mostly Laundry Lint

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GA4QJ TIL that in 2003 Hideo Kojima designed a Game Boy Advance game with a light sensor built into the cartridge. The player's in-game weapon is charged by taking the game outside and playing it in natural sunlight, and game mechanics change when it's dark out in your area
Pg6V TIL during World War 2 the Japanese government had a national policy to receive Jewish refugees. Even Hideki Tojo rejected Nazi protests to this policy.
1owr TIL There was an Iranian diplomat who saved hundreds, possibly thousands of Jews in WW2 by handing out Iranian passports. Despite praise for his actions he died in poverty and exile in 1981.
R79j1 TIL The music to the Star-Spangled​ Banner is from a British drinking song called "To Anacreon in Heaven” By John Stafford Smith written in 1780
LkgV0 TIL that the Russian space agency decided to turn an old space suit into a satellite. The result looked like an astronaut stranded in outer space.