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TIL The first Democrat governor of Wyoming wore a pair of shoes made of human skin to his inaugural ball.

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mxQPO TIL Croatia's children concentration camp in Sisak was so brutal that even the Nazis questioned it. Some children were killed by being given poisoned milk or gruel laced with caustic soda.
e0K15 TIL That ACME in the Looney Tunes Cartoons was supposed to be ironic. Acme comes from a Greek word meaning "pinnacle" or "peak" implying "the peak of greatness" and that the product would be the best you could get. Any product with the name in the show was guaranteed to fail spectacularly.
M7LbV TIL that long-term extended space travel can change your DNA.
M7NOm TIL that before modern digital cameras that record images as digital files, there were still video cameras using the same technology as VHS camcorders that took photos formatted as single NTSC/PAL video frames on floppy disks
mxreY TIL in 2012 three researchers proved that many classic Nintendo games are NP-hard by developing a framework for reducing the 3SAT problem to any platform game. This means the question "given a finite level of a game, can the player move from start to finish?" is not computable in polynomial time.