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TIL a Gameboy was stored in a barracks that was bombed in The Gulf War and it ran Tetris like nothing happened.

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JY5VB TIL Quentin Blake, probably best known for Roald Dahl illustrations, also illustrated books written by Dr. Seuss and William Steig
XyLD TIL that curly hair is curly because the hair follicle it grows from is oval and straight hair is straight because the hair follicle it grows from is round. Straight hair is like a straw (except tinier) and curly hair is like a slightly squeezed tip of a straw.
9YD9r TIL back in February a woman played violin during brain surgery so the surgeons could observe the parts of her brain she used to do so and avoid damaging her ability to play
QJWgk TIL that Owen Wilson attempted suicide and was subsequently treated for depression. A few days after his hospitalization, Wilson withdrew from his role in Tropic Thunder. He was replaced by Matthew McConaughey.
KOyl6 TIL when two soldiers in the Canadian Airborne beat a Somalian teenager to death, and then their superiors attempted to cover it up, the Canadian government disbanded the entire Canadian Airborne