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TIL The PlayStation 2 was so popular, it was produced up until the month before the PlayStation 4 was announced.

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16KvO TIL That webcam was invented in 1991 by researchers to check if the coffee pot in another room was empty or not.. The webcam was called Trojan Room coffee pot.
r171 TIL when elected President of the United States, George Washington was the owner and operator the largest whiskey distillery in the country
vjRR TIL There is a Redtailed Hawk living in Central Park for over 20 years. He has had eight bird lovers, most of whom met tragic deaths.
VBn7m TIL that the male redback spider will assist his partner during sexual cannibalism by somersaulting toward her mouthparts. Because this allows him to mate only once, some find a juvenile female -- too young to eat him -- and break her exoskeleton to deliver his sperm for her to use when mature.
J1Kwm TIL about cosmic microwave background which is the cooled remnant of the first light that could ever travel freely throughout the universe. This 'fossil' radiation, the furthest that any telescope can see, was released soon after the 'Big Bang'.