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TIL that GameBoy and GameBoy Color cartridges have a watch battery inside of them to power the chip for savefiles.

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j6BEX TIL there was a Hobbit-like tribe of humans called Homo floresiensis who grew to no more than 1m tall. They lived 190,000-60,000 years ago on the island of Flores, Indonesia and have not been linked to homo sapiens anywhere else in the world.
OGLL TIL as Apple is granted “Slide-to-Unlock” patent, they in a case against Motorola also argued “a tap is a zero-length swipe.”
pYoDQ TIL that a Swedish man survived in his car for 60 days, only drinking melted snow, after being snowed in with temperatures dropping as low as -30°C. However, due to the "igloo effect," the insulation from the snow helped keep him alive.
NyW1 TIL Mr. T Stopped Wearing His Trademark Gold Jewelry Because of His Experience Helping People After Hurricane Katrina “I felt it would be insensitive and disrespectful to the people who lost everything, so I stopped wearing my gold.”
ZpVrY TIL: The twins that played in the Disney show "The Suite Life of Zach and Cody" are the same twins that played the kid that Adam Sandler raises in the 1999 movie "Big Daddy"