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TIL that Nintendo's Game Boy was the first video game console to be played in space.

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N7PnP TIL that in 1989, President Bush sent troops to Panama to capture the dictator Manuel Noriega. But because he has fled to The Apostolic Nunciature of the Holy See, the troops couldn't get in. So they surrounded the place, and blasted Rock n' Roll music for days until he gave up.
ePP4 TIL a sixth grader reported a code red situation because he didn’t want to run two miles causing three schools to lockdown and the SWAT to arrive instantly. He was later expelled.
yVPo8 TIL about "Rose's Law", which is the "Moore's Law of Moore's Law" for quantum computation. It states that the quantity of qubits in a quantum computer doubles every 1.5-2 years. However, this results in exponential exponential growth of computing power.
yQ4dV TIL Einstein's last paper on quantum physics before departing from the field argued that it's an "incomplete" solution to a fundamental problem, with him writing that God "does not play dice." Ironically, the paper was highly influential and paved the way for decades of progress in quantum physics.
gMV6b TIL Mozilla, maker of Firefox, has a list of 50,000 most common passwords of which can't be used when setting up a Firefox account