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TIL: In 1991, a crowd of hundreds of people tried to play a single game Pong on a big screen, and quickly learned to do it successfully (Loren Carpenter experiment)

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6Ej0J TIL of the Degenerate Art Exhibition that took place in Nazi Germany in 1937 during which 650 paintings, sculptures, and prints were displayed to show that modernism was a conspiracy by people who hated Germany, mainly Jews. Over one million people attended in the first six weeks.
4dXR TIL that in 1989, a group calling itself “The Breeders” deliberately caused a medfly infestation in California, devastating crops and causing millions in damage. No suspects were ever identified.
16ly8 TIL polar bears don’t hibernate. Oh and it’s International Polar Bear Day!
kOk04 TIL that when President Millard Fillmore left office, he joined the New York militia and spent the rest of his life in it. He personally guarded President Lincoln’s funeral train when it passed through Buffalo.
9YNaM TIL that sometime in 1981, President Ronald Reagan ordered an SR-71 to spy on a secret North Korean conference, not because there was anything to learn, but because the repeated sonic booms would interrupt the conference and there wasn’t a weapon on earth which could shoot the craft down.