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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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egkn TIL Nicholas Saunderson (1683-1739) lost his eyes to smallpox before he was a year old, yet he taught himself to read by tracing the letters on gravestones and learned languages and mathematics by pricking holes in paper. He became the fourth professor of Mathematics at Cambridge.
lbZN TIL That Britain has an official Egg Verification System, where every egg sold in the UK can be checked against.
gMVvX TIL Imperial Germany had made plans to invade the US between 1897 and 1903 just to gain some Carribean colonies.
VBlNB TIL Catholic services were preformed with the priest facing away from the audience until the 1960’s.
9YaNG TIL James Taylor's song "Country Road" was inspired by Somerset Street in Belmont, Massachusetts, a wooded road running adjacent to the land owned by McLean Hospital where Taylor had committed himself in 1965 to receive treatment for depression