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TIL blowing game cartridges never really fixed anything

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QNJjE TiL jazz musician Lester Young is said to have popularized the use of the word "cool" to mean something fashionable. He also coined the term "bread" as slang for money, often asking "How does the bread smell?" when asking how much a gig was going to pay.
PYBNG TIL During the filming of the 1953 film Beat the Devil, Humphrey Bogart lost several of his teeth in a car accident. Comedy actor Peter Sellers, then not known internationally, but with a talent for imitating voices, was hired to dub some of Bogart's lines while Bogart was unable to speak.
7O1b TIL a chimpanzee that was socialized to humans since birth could log onto a computer to look at pictures, watch television using a remote control, brush his teeth, feed hay to his owner’s horses, water plants and learned the schedule of passing ice cream trucks.
kOdr5 TIL about the MIT developed camera that uses terahertz radiation to read closed books. A fascinating breakthrough that could mean reading dated and delicate documents such as historic manuscripts without touching or opening them.
Zxjp TIL that there is a conspiracy theory that says that we are in fact living in year 1715 and not 2012.