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TIL that Apple made a video game console in the ‘90s

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m1reP TIL phosphorous was discovered by a 17th century alchemist trying to turn base metals into gold by boiling hundreds of gallons of urine
ANXXd TIL in 2013, astronaut Chris Hadfield took a picture of Berlin at night from the International Space Station which showed the division between the former east and west through its streetlights. East Berlin looks orange due to sodium vapor lamps while West Berlin looks white due to fluorescent lamps.
mxMMv TIL that Idina Menze the woman who played Maureen in Rent is also the performer who sang Let it Go in Frozen
xNv7 TIL in the Yellow River in China there are so many corpses to be found that it is lucrative to recover them and sell the bodies back to the families of the deceased for 500$
AD0a4 TIL that Dr. Thomas Midgely, inventor of both leaded-gasoline and chlorofluorocarbon with the best of intentions, devised an ingenious system of pulleys and strings to pull his polio-stricken body out of bed, which tangled around his neck, and killed him.