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TIL Nintendo copied LEGO in the 60´s and outsold them for a few years in Japan. Their N&B Block series were very similar to LEGO an way more popular because they had more round shapes. Nintendo stopped the N&B Block series in the early 70s, most likely due to legal pressure from LEGO.

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Meg40 TIL a scientist stationed in Antarctica managed to score a date through Tinder with a girl camping just 45 minutes away.
d81Rj TIL that baby and children’s brains look/seem to function very similarly to an adult brain on psychedelics (LSD, psilocybin, etc)
peXe TIL there’s a 13,000 square mile radio silence zone in the US where AM, FM, wifi, and cell signals are banned.
OYea TIL the first serial killer in Jamica lived in a castle and hunted people for sport.
JYp4v TIL that Doves and Pigeons are the same bird. For example the common pigeon, Columba livia, is called a rock dove or a rock pigeon