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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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kOvdB TIL Sunflower roots produce sugar, alcohol, and biofuel. "Sunroots" can be eaten by people and livestock. Sunroots are prebiotic with bioactive medicinal compounds demonstrating antifungal, antioxidant, and anticancer properties. They grow in drought, poor soil and resist pests, disease, and fungus.
5yyn TIL of the Cleveland Elementary School shooting which took place in 1979 in San Diego, California. A 16-year-old girl, Brenda Spencer, killed the principal and a custodian, and injured 8 children and a police officer. When asked by a reporter why she did it, she said “I don’t like Mondays.”
9Y5JB TIL The Ramones’ “I Wanna be Sedated” is a straightforward homage to Alice Cooper’s “I Wanna Be Elected”. (Note: I heard it from Alice herself in a documentary but the hyperlink I attached will have to suffice.)
XEroD TIL Killer whales in the wild have not been responsible for a single human casualty.
aw8gA Or, why everyone is stocking up on iodine tablets