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TIL that Nintendo's first video game console was the Color TV Game in 1977, which Mitsubishi helped make. The console was not sold outside of Japan, and had simple variations of Pong on it.

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WAEB TIL that during Civil War, a person can pay $300 to escape the draft. The rationalization for this was that unwilling troops were ineffective so the government might as well extract funds to be used as war funds from the unwilling if it got poor service.
a8Jg9 TIL people used to steal corpses and mummies to grind up into paint and medicines
loYLB TIL China is harvesting organs from live "prisoners of conscience", performing more than 4,000 organ transplants per day. The EU parliament has passed resolutions against it but they've gone basically unnoticed
a86xo TIL Tobacco was hailed as a "universal remedy" for hundreds of years in Europe, widely prescribed for dozens of ailments, before its negative effects on health were proven in the 20th century.
oM9A TIL dogs have areas of their brain that process faces, just like humans