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TIL: Game Boy was the first video game console to be played in space by Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Serebrov. The game he played was Tetris.

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nejj7 TIL lemurs get high off large red millipedes by gently biting into them and making the millipede release a defensive toxin. They then spread this toxin through their fur and, thanks to the small concentration of cyanide within it, the lemurs enter a state of intoxication and salivate profusely.
4kv9J TIL Australia has a forger on their ten dollar note.
R5r88 Til- its illegal to shoot game birds and wildfowl on sundays and Christmas in the UK
kJlBB TIL the first Democratic Governor of Wyoming wore shoes made of human flesh to his inauguration in 1893.
dvnZ TIL Ludwig van Beethoven’s teacher wrote about him that, “If he continues like this, he will be, without a doubt, the new Mozart” when Beethoven was only 13