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TIL In 1998, Sony accidently sold camcorders that could see through people’s clothes

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QWPX TIL Ian Bogost created a game called Cow Clicker to criticize FarmVille. You click on a cow every six hours.
PYK9J TIL about Hemigrapsus estellinensis, an extinct species of crab that lived solely in a small saltwater spring in the Texas panhandle, 500 miles from the ocean. Probably a relic of the Pleistocene Era, the species was wiped out when the U.S. Army built a dike around the spring in 1964.
j6MDQ TIL that footage from the video game Arma 3, a military sandbox game, has been mistaken for actual combat footage and has been used in news reports a number of times due to the realistic nature of the game.
R5vA6 TIL of the plant Hydnora africana. It has no roots, leaves or chlorophyll and, apart from its flower, lives entirely underground.
R78La TIL Jim Henson lost the Hoggle puppet from "Labyrinth" after traveling back from the overseas movie set. The Unclaimed Baggage Center in Scottsboro, Alabama discovered it inside a lost shipping container and now it is on display at their museum of found treasures.