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TIL The US Supreme Court Officially Recognizes Video Games As Art And Protects Them Under The First Amendment

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166ld TIL about the Baghdad Batteries. In 1938 twelve jars with copper cylinders and iron rods were found in Iraq. The jars when combined with grape juice produce approximately 1 volt of electricity. It is hypothesized these were the first batteries ever created, over two thousand years ago.
nebjd TIL about a New Jersey history professor who was telling a story to his class about how a ranger saved his life in a canyon at night in Texas in 1940. The ranger had managed to track him down and coincidentally walked in to the classroom right as the professor was telling the story.
BRak TIL that Brazil participated in WW2, the only independent South American country to do so. The 25,000-troop Brazilian Expeditionary Force worked alongside the Allies, and managed to take 20,573 Axis prisoners, consisting of two generals, 892 officers and 19,679 other ranks.
ZGNG TIL In 2006, Russia gifted the USA a 9/11 memorial monument, which was erected in Bayonne, NJ.
VBwmm TIL if you sat down and watched all 249 individual animation series from the Hanna-Barbera studios, back to back without interruption or commercials, it would take 51.9 days or 1246 hours from start to finish.