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TIL that Chuck Lorre composed the iconic TMNT 80s cartoon theme song

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0wpxy TIL Scott Fahlman is credited with originating the first ever smiley emoticon, which he thought would help people on a message board at Carnegie Mellon to distinguish serious posts from jokes. He proposed the use of :-) and :-( for this purpose, and the symbols caught on.
b9DJ9 TIL Physicist William Higinbotham created what is thought to be the first video game in 1958. It was a very simple tennis game, similar to the classic 1970s video game Pong.
VDoZ TIL that carrots used to be purple until the late 16th century
Np5b TIL when Samuel Wallis and his crew discovered Tahiti, they were given a friendly welcome. The relationships became particularly friendly when the sailors discovered that the women were eager to exchange sex for iron nails. This trade became so extensive that the loss of nails destroyed the ship
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