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TIL of the Visteon Dockable Entertainment System. A portable DVD player capable of playing Game Boy Advance games and fully licensed by Nintendo.

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MPD0 TIL Jacqueline Kennedy wore her blood-splattered pink Chanel suit for the rest of the day after JFK’s assassination. When asked to change her outfit, she replied “I want them to see what they have done to Jack.”
6E9ZX TIL South Korean bootleggers made a plan to balloon drop Sony's "The Interview" to North Koreans, en masse. They had to cancel plans when North Korea learned of this and labeled such an action as "a declaration of war".
6EDOQ TIL that Anne Frank's sister also Margot kept a diary, but it has never been found
Wx7o TIL a French man on trial for witchcraft in the 1500’s decided to troll his accusers before being sentenced to death and declared that not only was he indeed a sorcerer, but there were more than 300,000 others in France alone, setting off mass hysteria across the country
XQZ6 TIL The Pirahã people of Brazil live without the concepts of numbers or time. They can’t count and use an “analog estimation strategy” which works well for trying to solve problems involving a few items but breaks down beyond that.