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TIL Blowing into your Nintendo cartridges didn’t actually help, it only damaged them

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P1pLV TIL that objects known as optical frequency multipliers can double the frequency of a beam of light. This means that it's possible for them to convert invisible light (infrared) into visible light
D1QRe TIL Apple engineers code-named the Power Macintosh 7100 "Carl Sagan." When Sagan sent a cease-and-desist letter, they changed it to "BHA" for "Butt-Head Astronomer." Eventually a settlement was reached and Apple released an apology. Their final name for the project was "LAW"- "Lawyers Are Wimps"
BrWnW TIL that this is the 100th anniversary of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre where the British gunned down 1500 peaceful Indian protesters in 10 minutes. Colonel Dryer, the man who ordered the massacre said he “wanted to punish Indians for disobedience.”
ke0m TIL that a high school football coach got half the fans of his own team to cheer for the other team, because the other team was from a maximum-security juvenile correctional facility and didn’t have any fans of their own.
b6kO4 TIL the transistor was patented 21 years before a working one was actually created.