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TIL the US Army had a super Nintendo game for teaching shooting skills.

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xVY50 TIL - Greenland got its name in 986 AD from the explorer Erik the Red's attempt to lure settlers to the ice-covered island: "it would induce settlers to go there, if the land had a good name".
aDMJ TIL that the National Endowment for the Arts has a smaller budget than the Pentagon’s marching band
LkMYp TIL thanks to the dedicated evaluation by Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey (a young pharmacologist who had just started working at the Food and Drug Administration), Thalidomide was banned in the USA and worldwide in 1962. The drug caused massive birth defects such as missing ears and flipper limbs.
M74Ga TIL in 1934 actress Joan Lowell sued producers of a movie based on her autobiography for withholding profits. They counter sued claiming she was just a horrible actress - it was revealed later that her autobiography was a work of fiction.
WkjQA TIL about TON 618 which is a very distant and extremely luminous quasar that is 10 Billion light years away. It contains the most massive known black hole that has a mass which is heavier than 66 Billion Suns.