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TIL players of an online game called Foldit resolved the structure of an enzyme in just three weeks.

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LQlLQ TIL that Apple's infamous "1984" ad for the Macintosh computer was secretly aired once on local television in Twin Falls, Idaho in December 1983, a month before its national premier during Super Bowl XVIII. This allowed it to qualify for the 1984 Clio advertising awards.
w9NW TIL when puppies play, young boy dogs often let the girls win, so as to entice the females to play with them.
Anpg TIL Gary Gygax had been asked if he invented roleplaying. He modestly responded “No, as long as kids have been playing cops and robbers or cowboys and indians, they’ve been playing roleplaying games.”
lOD1 TIL that to reach the rank of Grand Master of Memory you have to memorize 1,000 random digits in an hour, the order of 10 shuffled decks of cards in an hour, and the order of one shuffled deck of cards in under 2 minutes.
vPwj7 TIL that the UK's Violet Club nuclear device was so unstable that it required the core to be filled entirely with half a ton of ball bearings to prevent accidental detonation