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TIL of the Johnston Turkey, a Turkey located in Rhode Island who has evaded capture for months, terrorized and disrupted locals, and even got votes in the local mayorial election.

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b6MrN TIL Nolan Bushnell played Spacewar! in a computer lab in the 1960s. The only computers capable of running the game at the time cost more than $100,000. Bushnell decided he didn't need a computer and used affordable custom hardware to create "Computer Space" housed in a futuristic cabinet
KYXYw TIL The first snowboard was invented in 1917 & patented in 1939
Y7ZMx TIL: Regularly occurring bouts of retinal movements suggest an REM sleep–like state in jumping spiders | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
6drm TIL It costs more to put someone on death row than life in prison
Rvw1 TIL that the largest galaxy in the observable universe is elliptical galaxy, IC 1101. It has 100 trillion stars and is 6 million light years across! By comparison, the Milky way has a mere 100 billion stars and is 120,000 light years across.