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TIL that 70% of the land in England is still owned by 1% of the population, largely descended from William the Conqueror’s army.

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mxreY TIL in 2012 three researchers proved that many classic Nintendo games are NP-hard by developing a framework for reducing the 3SAT problem to any platform game. This means the question "given a finite level of a game, can the player move from start to finish?" is not computable in polynomial time.
RWQ7 TIL - A hacker in the 70’s (John Draper) found that a toy whistle in the cereal Cap'n Crunch blew at the same frequency that was used by AT&T long lines to indicate that a trunk line was ready the route a new call, essentially allowing him to make free long distance calls.
kG4B TIL in 1927 the US Supreme Court ruled it constitutional for the government to forcefully sterilize mentally handicapped people
A5Kd TIL There is a terrarium, or sealed ecosystem that is 50 years old and thriving.
mVQO TIL both dolphins and elephants have prehensile penises. In the case of the dolphin, this is sometimes used to grab divers by the ankle.