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TIL that Shakespeare had Merlin delusions

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mxWlP TIL of the gulf war gameboy. As if the console's long lifespan from 1989-003 wasn't impressive enough. A soldier's gameboy suffered a bomb explosion and was still fully playable.
ZpJWG TIL 'The Democratic Review', published between ~1837 and 1859, was a progressive/liberal periodical that included essays by Browning, Hawthorne, Whitman and Thoreau, was also the first to use the term and advocate "manifest destiny".
pYYdO TIL the asteroid impact that caused the dinosaur extinction set 70% of the world's forests on fire, caused tsunamis that rose to a height of 300ft (100m), and ejected 25 trillion metric tons of debris into the atmosphere that reduced sunlight by up to 90% for a decade.
a8A6L TIL that Lord Byron kept a bear with him during his time at Trinity College, in defiance of the college's rule of not allowing students to keep dogs
Y7yL7 TIL about Ryan White, a 13-year-old boy, got AIDS from a blood donor in 1984, 117 parents signed a petition to ban him from returning to school. An auction was held to keep him out, a newspaper supporting him got death threats, and his family left town when a gun was fired through their window.