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TIL in 1983, Atari buried truckloads of video gaming cartridges in a New Mexico landfill because they couldn’t sell them. The incident represented a turning point marking a decline of U.S gaming companies and allowing a few Japanese companies - Sega, Nintendo and Sony- to enter the U.S. market.

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6Eejw TIL that if you were to stand at the top of the Olympus Mons on Mars, the tallest planetary mountain in the solar system, you would not be able to tell you were on a mountain due to the shallow slope in the mountain extending further than the horizon line, which is a mere three kilometers away.
1aLmO TIL of Amy Carter, President Jimmy Carter's daughter. Once, when asked whether she had a message for the children of America, she replied, "no." She later became an activist, protesting foreign policy towards South African apartheid, and CIA recruitment at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
9wx9m TIL that in 1990 filmmaker Martin Scorsese played Vincent Van Gogh in Akira Kurosawa’s film ‘Dreams’.
5VoN9 TIL that there is only one man in recorded history to have had both dwarfism and gigantism (Adam Rainer). He went from 122.55 cm (4 foot 0.25 inches) at 18 years old to 234 cm (7 foot 8 inches) at 51 years old, which was how old he was when he died.
l7XYr TIL about Brachycephalus, the world's smallest vertebrate, a frog so small it could sit on the head of a pencil eraser. Their auditory systems have also shrunk: at least two species can't hear their own mating calls.