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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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5p8P TIL of Peter Fechter, an 18 year old East German who was shot by East German troops trying to cross the Berlin Wall, was caught in barbed wire, and bled to death in front of the world’s media, as police tried to throw him bandages.
lMlr TIL five year-old children who drink 4+ soda servings per day are 100% more aggressive on the whole than their peers who don’t drink any, according to a Columbia University study.
0Ojp TIL The CIA have released all their documents on UFOs
R7Xvj TIL about Pluto Lamps that were public street gas lamps in the 1890's that were coin operated serving hot water and cups of cocoa, tea, beef broth and coffee with milk and sugar options.
x6Vo7 TIL about Tojo, the monkey mascot of a WW2 US Air Force crew who crash landed in neutral Ireland, and who became such a local hero that he was given a full Irish wake and military funeral after he succumbed to a few days of solid Irish hospitality