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TIL that the first indie video game developer is a woman. Joyce Weisbecker wrote games for the RCA Studio II console from 1976 to 1977, and received $250 for her first paying work.

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nZG7 TIL modern Westerners tend to have a lifelong attraction to fire because they don’t learn to start, maintain, and master fire during childhood. However, in cultures where fire is used as a tool from a young age, interest in it wanes around age 7.
GYA8J TIL that during the Victorian Era, “female hysteria” was a catchall term for many feelings of malaise, including when a woman was horny. Doctors “treated” the ailment by masturbating the women until they reached “hysterical paroxysm”, or as we call it today, an orgasm. [NSFW]
Y7xAW TIL Matthew McConaughey auditioned for the role of Jack Dawson in Titanic.
KRYB TIL injuries from opening food packages hospitalize over 60,000 people a year
5nnn TIL (As an American) that the UK version of the “I’m a Mac, I’m a PC” ads were done using Mitchell & Webb