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TIL the first 'light gun' game wasn't Duck Hunt on NES but Ray-O-Lite developed in 1936

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GA4VE TIL The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act (IRTPA) of 2004 limits that you may only receive a replacement (US) Social Security Card 3 times in a year, or 10 in your whole life time, if your card was issued after December 17, 2005. Reasonable exemptions can be made
d8Rrr TIL that the largest beaver dam is 2,790 ft (850 m) in length, twice the width of the Hoover Dam!
ANOe7 TIL about Miracle Village, a community for registered sex offenders in Palm Beach, Florida.
16KmW TIL that dictator Suharto created a forced monopoly on cloves to enrich his son Tommy, who paid clove farmers well below market rate. That company somehow went broke, so Suharto forced state banks to loan $300 million to his son.
Wkg1B TIL fungi that feed on radiation have developed in the Chernobyl area.