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TIL A year after Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers and Wat Misaka broke basketball's with the New York Knicks, Larry Kwong broke hockey's with the New York Rangers. Becoming the first man of Asian descent to appear professionally.
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TIL busses have a silent alarm so drivers can discretely display a “help, call 911” message outside instead of the destination.
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TIL of Where in North Dakota is Carmen Sandiego?, a 1989 Apple II game commissioned by the North Dakotan government. Only 3 retail copies are known to exist.
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TIL that by 2075 the ozone layer is expected to have fully recovered.
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TIL erotic artist Toshio Maeda in the 80s started to feature tentacles in his intercourse scenes to avoid being censored by the Japanese government. His "a tentacle is not a penis" argument worked and started the trend of Japanese anime, manga, and video games featuring tentacles.