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TIL the term "Game Over" originated with light-up displays on 1950's pinball machines

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4kdPb TIL that glacier mice are are colonies of wandering moss, observed as far apart as Alaska and Uganda. They move at least an inch a day as a herd and in a non-random fashion. Though they reproduce asexual, the conditions for them to form, or the the nature of their movement, has yet to be explained.
gr0O9 TIL that New Hampshire has a coastline
4D1N TIL that legendary Hollywood producer Hal Roach would employ someone called a “wildie” who was either an insane person or a drunk to sit in his writers’ room and spout crazy ideas whenever they had writer’s block
d8rkB TIL About Antonio Meucci, a poor inventor who created a working prototype of a telephone years before Alexander Graham Bell, but lost his patent due to not being able to pay a ten dollar fee to keep the caveat.
agko TIL Anderson Cooper, soon after graduating college, forged a press pass and gained entrance to Myanmar to meet with students fighting the Burmese government. He was ultimately able to sell his home-made news segments to Channel One, launching his journalism career.