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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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PYyQe TIL that during the tablecloth scene from the Grinch, Jim Carrey was supposed to pull everything off of the table, but he accidentally pulled the tablecloth clean off without knocking anything over, so he went back and improvised knocking everything down.
gMA7W TIL the story of Isaac Newton watching an apple fall out of a tree often misses an important detail, it was a windy day. The wind blew the apple at an angle as it fell. This caused Newton to wonder if an object could fall at such an angle that it never hits the ground, aka an orbit.
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VRZB TIL Genghis Khan once sent a 500 man caravan to establish trade ties, only to receive nothing in return and to have the whole caravan executed. Genghis Khan responded to this act of greed by executing the Shah responsible by pouring molten silver into his eyes and ears.
kVJ5 TIL Tug of War was once an Olympic sport