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TIL You Could Download Video Games From the Radio in the 1980s

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ZgRQ TIL Cats kidneys are so efficient that they can drink Salt Water (Sea Water) to rehydrate themselves
ANN54 TIL that most Native Americans died because of Eurasian Germs like Smallpox, not because of European military success in the New World
QNvWE TIL that Pérez Prado's cover of the Neapolitan song 'Guaglione' became #2 hit in the UK in 1994, decades after its release, when Guinness used it in an advert.
16K8V TIL that in Victorian England, post-mortem photography was a common way to memorialise loved ones - dead children were often posed to look alive, with painted-on eyes or blushed cheeks, and families would gather for their first and only portrait with the deceased.
YDeZ TIL There is a clock in New Zealand that has been running since 1864 despite never having been manually wound.