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TIL Laser Tag was actually military combat training before it was commercial recreation

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wgnP TIL that early explorers described kangaroos as creatures that had heads like deer, stood upright like men, and hopped like frogs. No one believed them.
X06w6 TIL since we are used to seeing ourselves in the mirror, photos can seem less pleasing to ourselves as the perspective is swapped back to the real life presentation.
e0W85 TIL Aeschylus died by a tortoise dropped by an eagle which had mistaken his bald head for a rock suitable for shattering the shell of the reptile
WkD5Y TIL General MacArthur wanted to win the Korean War by dropping 30-50 atomic bombs on air bases, followed by sowing nuclear waste into the ground to create a permanent radioactive border to prevent future invasions from the North.
PYA1E TIL that a pound of US quarters and a pound of dimes both equal twenty dollars.