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TIL Pediatric dentists create Game Boy with nitrous oxide feed

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Y7xev TIL of Säkkijärven polkka. A Finnish folk-song played repeatedly over radio during the Soviet-Finnish War to block radio-controlled mines
Y7JZA TIL Confucius believed people would naturally follow and support the virtuous ruler without needing harsh laws and spent 12 years traveling around China looking for a ruler who would listen to his ideas. He never found one
P1npL TIL Virgil Earp (Wyatt Earp's nephew) appeared on The $64,000 question. His category was the Wild West.
oR4ro TIL The Red Hook Society for the Apprehension and Detention of Horse Thieves, the oldest horse thief apprehension and detention society in the USA, has never apprehended or detained a single horse thief.
0wG4y TIL about Andy George who spent $1,500 and 6 months making a single sandwich completely from scratch. He did absolutely everything from making his own cheese to harvesting his own wheat. He made his own salt and made his own oil. He grew sunflowers and collected their seeds to extract fat.