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TIL that old games used Code Wheels as a method of copy protection

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W0WN TIL a town in England completely turned off their traffic lights
5PA8 TIL Before the adoption of the word ‘penis’ into the English language, the penis was referred to as a 'yard’.
0wJ9M TIL A rare mutation among the Bajau people lets them stay underwater longer: natural selection at the PDE10A gene has increased spleen size in the Bajau, providing them with a larger reservoir of oxygenated red blood cells.
J1Jj1 TIL that whales were saved from massacre when kerosene appeared (1860s) because, until then, whale oil was widely used as illumination fuel.
D1bmP TIL: Light is measured in units called foot candles. One footcandle (ft-c) is the amount of light cast by a candle on a white surface 1 foot away in a completely dark room.