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TIL during the development of Space Harrier, the president of SEGA insisted that if the graphics were done, a game was ready for release. To properly finish the game, the lead designer rigged a secret switch to the bottom of his desk that would mess up the colors whenever giving a demonstration.

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6oQZ TIL the earliest of all prehistoric whales was a three foot long, fifty pound, dog-like creature that lived entirely on land. Its lineage is a case study as an entirely terrestrial mammal evolving into an entirely aquatic lifestyle.
ADBM4 TIL about Microtargeting where machine-learning algorithms ingest large amounts of voter data to divide the electorate into narrow segments and predict which individual voters are best target to persuade or turn out in an election
16kEW TIL of "Man Walking Around a Corner", a precursor of film shot in August of 1887. The work is not a film, but a series of 16 photographs, each taken from one of the 16 lenses from Louis Le Prince's camera. A year later, he made the world's first moving image in October 1888, "Roundhay Garden Scene".
R5KB6 TIL of Annie Wilkins, a 63 year old farmer who, given two years to live, embarked on a 4000 mile journey across the US to see the Pacific Ocean
N7L6P TIL of the "Southern Strategy", in which GOP politicians like Goldwater and Nixon developed campaign strategies designed to appeal to southern racism, successfully realigning the white & conservative Democratic voters in the South to vote Republican, further pushing the party rightward