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TIL many silent actors succumbed to a condition known as “Klieg eyes” where their retinas were damaged due to the heavy lighting required by film stocks of the time

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wLR7M TIL that in 1984, British new wave pop group Thompson Twins released a video game on a vinyl record. Players had to copy the game from the vinyl disc to a cassette tape, which could then be played on a ZX Spectrum or Commodore 64 computer.
R7Xvj TIL about Pluto Lamps that were public street gas lamps in the 1890's that were coin operated serving hot water and cups of cocoa, tea, beef broth and coffee with milk and sugar options.
neYOP TIL Leif Erikson may not have even been the first Norsemen to discover the Americas. In 986, Bjarni Herjolfsson sighted the mainland while trying to sail to Greenland. He decided to not make landfall, and later sagas would not include him, giving most, if not all, of the credit to Leif.
mxlgy TIL in 2013 the Pirate Bay faked moving its servers to North Korea. Various news outlets including NBC and ‘Business Insider’ reported the event as factual, without ever updating that it was a hoax.
J18dm TIL about Aleksander Doba. At the age of 65, he kayaked from Senegal to Brazil across the Atlantic Ocean in a kayak without a sail, relying only on a paddle and his muscles. The voyage took 99 days and spanned 5394 kilometers.