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TIL The N64 had online capabilities that were never released to the US.

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x8eg TIL that Russia signed a treaty banning bio-weapons, but ignored the treaty and continued developing them - even building ICBMs that could be loaded with weaponized smallpox, anthrax, typhus & rabies. After the fall of the USSR, they lost most of the bioweapons. Their locations remain unknown.
rNGNo TIL 45% of people only have two bones in their pinky toe
peeQ TIL that The Great Sphinx of Giza is not located in a remote region of the Egyptian desert; rather, it stares directly at a Pizza Hut and KFC located in what has become a suburb of Cairo.
nWVPb TIL in 1893 that the US Supreme Court unanimously decided a tomato is "legally" a vegetable.
69Eem TIL that from 2004 to 2005, the constituency of Basingstoke in Southern England was represented by the DUP, a Northern Irish political party when its MP, Andrew Hunter, defected to them