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TIL that Glitter is destroying our oceans.

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dDE69 TIL after Space Invaders received an officially licensed port to the Atari 2600 in 1980, its availability on the console quadrupled the system's sales.
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LkwrQ TIL fewer than 12% of the companies that were on the 1955 Fortune 500 list still were on it in 2017.
j6kjR TIL Ulysses S. Grant was the first U.S. president to get a speeding ticket in 1872 for driving his horse-drawn carriage too fast.
5VDBR TIL about Ri Jong-yol, a North Korean defector who lived in the South Korean consulate for two months after escaping during the International Math Olympiad in Hong Kong.