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TIL Wolves can be scared away from livestock pens using Wacky Inflatable Arm Men

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1aZYD TIL that every single copy of GoldenEye 007 for the N64 shipped with a fully functioning ZX Spectrum emulator, along with ten games, hidden on the cartridge. This function can be reenabled using an emulator, letting users play the classic games.
loRP7 TIL that the first message ever sent over the internet was “LO” in 1969. A programmer at UCLA attempted to send each letter of the word “LOGIN” to the Stanford Research institute, but the machine crashed after the first two.
4kBnX TIL in 2006, some parents were upset with a sound book for children called "Potty Time With Elmo". Instead of hearing "Uh oh! Who has to go?", the parents were hearing "Uh oh! Who wants to die?". The publisher said that a cheap computer chip that was used in the book was to blame for the problem.
QNDo9 TIL about Albert Cossery a french philosopher who loved to be lazy that he said sorry for getting a prize for his writing because he had to wake up at 10 in the morning.
enWE TIL that much more people used to dream in black and white, and this decreased with the arrival of colour TV.