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TIL that hugging a cat or dog has been shown to reduce stress and anxiety, especially for people dealing with illness, depression and other .

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0wDXN TIL: In 1983’s Trading Places, the Dukes are squeezed by a margin call that came about due to short selling based on insider information. While legal at the time, the “Eddie Murphy Rule” finally made this illegal in 2010.
R7GJl TIL Tomohiro Nishikado, creator of Space Invaders, made the entire game himself. Not only was he its designer, programmer, artist, and sound mixer, but he also engineered the game’s microcomputer from scratch.
w5PJ TIL the U.S. government used 1,760 Playstation 3’s to build a supercomputer for the Department of Defense. Their reason: It was more cost efficient and “green”.
m8wO TIL before the 1980s, it was unlawful to own your own telephone.
8ekbZ TIL that more academic papers have been written about Buffy the Vampire Slayer than any other popular culture phenomenon.