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TIL that Apple made a video game console in the ‘90s
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TIL the dilemma zone is the term for the area where you cannot safely stop for a yellow light nor reach the intersection before the light turns red.
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TIL that the USA had 1,104 shark attacks between 1958-2014; 35 fatal. Australia only had 665 shark attacks during the same time frame, with 232 of them fatal.
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TIL that although 74-acre Necker Island is entirely privately owned by Richard Branson and rents for US$82,000 a night, all beaches up to the high-water mark are Crown land, and are open to the public under British Virgin Islands law.
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TIL Beethoven, after the first performance of Symphony No. 9, had to be turned around to receive the audience’s roaring applause due to his near complete deafness.
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TIL a man faked mental illness to escape jail, was sent to an asylum and has been trying since to convince doctors he’s sane. He’s been diagnosed a psychopath ‘cause in part, “Faking mental illness to get out of a prison sentence is exactly the kind of manipulative act you’d expect of a psychopath.”