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TIL: Justice Scalia wrote the majority opinion protecting video games as free speech protected by the First Amendment

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jNmRE TIL that 5,500 Sacajawea dollars that were included in boxes of Cheerios were struck from a different set of master dies than regular Sacajawea dollars, making them with thousands of dollars today.
7eGP TIL there’s $3 Billion dollars worth of platinum at the bottom of the ocean near Cape Cod.
R74N9 TIL about Maroons, enslaved Africans who quickly escaped in the countries they were brought to and often joined indigenous populations to form warrior tribes with their own complex language, war and living cultures. Many Maroon warfare tactics have been co-opted into global army training today.
N7VaM TIL West and East Berlin used two different kinds of street lights during the Cold War, producing different colours that are still visible from space, almost 30 years after the wall fell.
nWlg9 TIL: All living cells emit ultra weak coherent electromagnetic energy in the form of photons, often called biophotons.