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R54Jj TIL: Rope can be threaded left or right handed, commonly know as S and Z laid, with each way giving different properties to the rope
JYjxl TIL when the Nintendo 64 was released in North America on September 29th 1996, a mere two games were available at launch: Pilot Wings 64, and Super Mario 64. There would not be another release for over a month.
4Xxna TIL about Mabel Ping-Hua Lee (1896-1966), a Chinese-American suffragette. At the age of 16, she was invited to help lead a march of 10,000 people up Fifth Avenue.
E5ZP TIL the word decimation comes from the Roman practice of killing every 10th man as a form of maintaining discipline.
x6rEb TIL inanimate objects can win awards like “Hero of Labor” in North Korea.