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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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oRK67 TIL Australia's first ever medal won at the Winter Olympics was a gold medal in Short Track Skating and the skater, Steven Bradbury, was dubbed "the accidental hero" after winning in a very bizarre sequence of his rivals colliding in all the elimination phases (quarter-finals, semi-finals and final)
Y7mo7 TIL: A wealthy stock trader was sentenced in 2017 after a man he hired to dig a secret tunnel to a nuclear bunker died a fiery death. He made him wear blackout glasses, spoofed the wifi, and lowers a bucket for his tunnel guy to relieve himself for days at a time to keep the location secret.
jNjWE TIL that the Berlin Wall was torn down by mistake. East Germany’s new spokesman, Günter Schabowski, accidentally implied the wall would be taken down, which caused citizens to rush the wall. The East German government decided it would be worse to try to stop them, and allowed the wall to come down.
nGMG TIL women have an accuracy rate of just 18% at recognizing flirting. Men have a rate of 36%, which is still below random chance.
bRyZ TIL that a 2007 study discovered a negative correlation between IQ and chess skill in strong players