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TIL Nearly 37% of purchased Steam games are never played.

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be0j TIL that the creator of NBA Jam hated the Chicago Bulls so much that he coded it so that they would miss last second shots against the Detroit Pistons.
loGOV TIL that it is illegal to die in Longyearbyen , Svalbard group of islands in Norway.
Wk068 TIL that Bon Jovi's song You Give Love a Bad Name was original recorded by Bonnie Tyler, but the writer Desmond Child was not satisfied with its success so it was rewritten for Bon Jovi and became their first #1 hit.
v160x TIL President Ronald Reagan revealed he wore hearing aids in 1983, leading to greater acceptance and increased sales of the devices among seniors. At age 72, he said that his hearing loss dated to his early Hollywood days when a .38-caliber blank was fired close to his right ear on a film set
YxEB TIL: when an older scientist loses touch with scientific reality and goes berserk the polite term to describe this is “going emeritus”