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TIL there is a Museum of Soviet Arcade Games in Moscow, where visitors can try out over fifty playable games (including Tankodrome!) dating from the Soviet Era.

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KOxGB TIL of a study to determine contamination levels for computer keyboards in the average office setting. One keyboard had to be removed after testing because it was found to be five times dirtier than a toilet seat, home to 150 times the acceptable limit of bacteria, and was a health risk to its user.
JK9j TIL that after Samuel L. Jackson agrees to star in “Snakes on a Plane”, producers tried to change the title but did not because Jackson agreed to do the film based on the title alone.
Y7e7r TIL both Scarface movies (1983 & 1932) were based on a book by Armitage Trail, who was 28 years old and died suddenly of a heart attack just nine months after the novel was published.
MW7W TIL that during the French Revolution, radicals tried to introduce two competing religions to replace Christianity: the atheist Cult of Reason and the deist Cult of the Supreme Being.
N7RrJ TIL that in 2019 most Americans surveyed thought that Arabic numerals should not be taught in schools.