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TIL that despite the stereotypes, video games can actually have numerous benefits for our cognitive abilities, mental well-being and social skills!

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dn78 TIL a US cargo plane crashed while moving children from Vietnam. American businessman Robert Macauley heard that it would take over a week to evacuate the survivors, so he chartered a Boeing 747 and arranged for 300 orphaned children to leave the country, paying for the trip by mortgaging his house.
XEDgQ TIL the word 'laser' is actually an acronym. It stands for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.
v5R8 TIL Star Trek actor who played Scotty shot two snipers on D-Day and was shot seven times in WWII
x7pB TIL: Steve Buscemi was a New York City fire fighter from 1980 to 1984. After the events of 9/11, he showed up in NYC to volunteer, working twelve-hour shifts for a week, and digging through rubble with his old comrades looking for missing firefighters
awVb9 TIL: The Russian Army finally switched to socks (from footwraps) in 2013.