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TIL Home Improvement for the SNES did not include a real manual. Instead, it included a fake manual with a sticker reading “Real men don’t need instructions”.

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R5be8 TIL Canadians coming back from Cornwall Island have to go through Canadian Border Services Agency, without ever having left Canada, because the road checkpoint is on the mainland and not on the island itself.
x6rkD TIL Marie Curie's notebook from 1899–1902, containing notes from experiments on radioactive substances, is still radioactive and will be for 1,500 years.
9YWrX TIL while making 2001 A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick wrote to a staffer asking if IBM were concerned that HAL was a psychotic computer. IBM wrote back explaining they were fine with it so long as IBM were not associated with any equipment failure.
jweR TIL Americans “overreport” their church attendance in polls, while diaries of actual behavior show attendance more in line with several European countries.
BrPPk TIL that in 1994, students in Kaktovik, Alaska created a new system of numerals to reflect the way counting is done in their language: in base 20. The system is relatively easy to learn and even makes basic math easier. It has since been widely adopted in Inupiaq communities.