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TIL Sony was awarded an Emmy award for the DualShock controller

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0g0L TIL that 57 Regiment doesn´t exist in Turkish army because almost every single one of them died when they were ordered “to die” in Gallipolli war. Turks believe that such men as those could never, by mere humans, be replaced.
GAEKj TIL that Heshen, who was Qing Dynasty Official during the late 1700's and favoured by the Qianlong Emperor is known as the most corrupt official in Chinese and one of the most in human history. During his life, he embezzled roughly US$270 billion or 15 years of Qing Imperial revenues
4kB1N TIL Benjamin Bolger overcame dyslexia to eventually earn 17 degrees as of March 2022. After special education programs didn't help him, he began being home-schooled in 4th grade. He also left Yale Law at 19 when he struggled again, but enrolled at Oxford after additional training for his dyslexia.
XOLE TIL Bryan Adams’s hit “Summer of ‘69’” is not about the year, but about the sexual position.
OGV5a TIL Adults with ADHD and SOI: Had their onset of melatonin an average of 1.5 hours later than normal, which correlated with falling asleep much beyond their bedtime.