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TIL Nintendo sold more Nintendo Switch consoles in its first year than Wii U consoles in its entire lifetime.

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xV8wk TIL that Windows 95 included the music video for Weezer's hit single "Buddy Holly" to demonstrate the video capabilities of the operating system.
Jg7j TIL Bowhead Whales can live up to 200 years old, and a recently killed specimen still had a harpoon in its body, thought to be from 1890.
Z1no TIL that the Beatles album, ‘Revolver’ was almost named 'After Geography’ (credits to Ringo), to contrast with the Rolling Stones album, 'Aftermath’.
RDm1 TIL 34 years ago, Carl Sagan stated that the total energy picked up by all the radio telescopes on the entire planet in all of history is less than the energy of “a single snowflake hitting the ground”. The count is now around 2 snowflakes.
xVvrB TIL Rubbing your eyes increases the pressure within the eyeball and this pressure activates ganglion cells in the retina in the same way as light does. Your brain doesn’t know the difference and so interprets the activation as though you were seeing light from the world outside.