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oBDQY TIL Back in 1985 Nintendo sued Magnavox, the company who made the first video game console, and tried to invalidate their patents
16v1X TIL that Jake from the TV sitcom Becker (the funny blind guy) is also a singer in the ska band Hepcat- Alex Désert
JY1Wj TIL of The Unfinished Portrait, a forever incomplete painting of Franklin D. Roosevelt. It captured his last waking moments before he collapsed from a sudden stroke. He never regained consciousness, and died later that day.
b9mbN TIL about Robert Cocking who tried to invent an improved parachute design. He was so convinced of his invention that he tested it himself, hanging below a balloon and releasing the parachute in the height of 5,000 ft. He was the first person who died in a parachute accident.
5VKJn TIL that the oldest person in the world is 116 years and 116 days old TODAY