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TIL Physicist William Higinbotham created what is thought to be the first video game in 1958. It was a very simple tennis game, similar to the classic 1970s video game Pong.

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x66ND TIL I learned about Herschel "Woody" Williams. The last surviving WWII Medal of Honor recipient.
PYV7L TIL that the woman who played Vera Webster in Superman III was also an accomplished singer. Probably saw that movie a hundred times as a kid and never knew this.
16lVD TIL more than 40 percent of the USA's roads are in poor or mediocre condition. The assessment of bridges, airports and water infrastructure is similar.
6eZ TIL that, unlike other professions in the USA, members of the Clergy can opt-out from Social Security, and 30% do. Many who opt-out from paying into the system have been let back in to collect benefits when they retire.
KOZ5G TIL about a baseball team that literally played for their lives. An integrated team of death-row inmates was assembled, called The Penitentiary All Stars, played against other local teams in Wyoming, and earned the prison officials money from gambling. Winning earned the team stays of execution.