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TIL that in the 1980's if you were stuck in a Nintendo game you could call their hotline and get a "pro" to help and talk you through it

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DbKj TIL a word-unit palindrome is a type of palindrome in which the unit of reversal is the word instead of the letter – for example: “Is it crazy how saying sentences backwards creates backwards sentences saying how crazy it is?”.
pY7gG TIL It was widely believed in Europe during the Middle Ages that some geese grew on trees
b9Ol9 TIL that the Imperial House of Japan is the oldest continuous hereditary monarchy in the world. Some sources indicate that it existed as far back as 660 BCE.
WDvA TIL a multi-national research team has created a model of a “Living and Breathing Supercomputer” that runs on the same substance that living things use as an energy source. The “biological computer” is fast, accurate, compact, and energy efficient.
V6DD TIL in 1996 a man named Larry Rutman hit himself in the head with a boomerang. He successfully sued himself for US$ 300,000, with the entire payout coming from his insurance