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TIL That Blowing into an NES cartridge Did Absolutely Nothing

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GdR1 TIL China is rapidly building a “supercity” expected to house 130 million and cover an area the size of Kansas
dZYQ TIL Nokia is developing a method of harvesting radio-waves, which would recharge your phone while it’s on standby.
ANpJw TIL that in 2011, Steve Whittaker, Researcher at IBM and Professor of Human Computer Interaction at UCSC, showed that Sorting Email into Folders is Mathematically Inferior to Searching and Scrolling.
rRvod TIL da Vinci's The Last Supper painting (1498) is 29 feet wide and 23 feet tall, and around 1652 a door was cut through part of it, destroying the area in which Jesus's feet were depicted.
pKnA TIL: That Nathan’s Hot Dogs were originally priced so low, that customers were hesitant to trust their quality. In response, the founder paid locals to wear white lab coats to fool the public into thinking that doctors from Coney Island Hospital were eating the hot dogs.