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TIL Pac-Man was created to attract female players. ????

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yQJMp TIL Bernard Fox appeared in two films about the sinking of the Titanic, 'A Night To Remember' (1958) and 'Titanic' (1997). In the latter, he delivered the line "Iceberg dead ahead, sir!"
GY6EE TIL: The reason that Moths are attracted to light is because prior to man-made artificial lighting, they used the light of the moon to help them navigate, so they mistake lights with light of the moon!
R5YjQ TIL about the caning of Charles Sumner, who was nearly beaten to death in the Senate chamber by Rep Preston Brooks
QJR8E TIL That Bumblebees’ bodies can be hijacked by the parasitic Phorid fly’s larva
oBm07 TIL that in WWII, pilots often blacked out in turns as high g forces made blood pool in their legs. British Ace Douglas Bader, however, did not have this problem, since his legs had been amputated after an accident.