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vPAZL TIL Xeno Crisis (2019), an indie arena shooter, launched originally targeted at and developed for the Sega Genesis ('88), modern platforms (Switch, PS4, PC, etc.) and has even since been officially ported to the Neo Geo (’90), SNES (’90), N64 (’96), and Game Boy Advance (’01).

da89 TIL that the Harmon, a brand-new hotel in Las Vegas, is already slated for demolition because of serious design flaws.

gkdb TIL in Aug 1914 the Frank Lloyd Wright’s estate in WI was set on fire by a male servant. The servant then killed Wright’s mistress Mamah Cheney, her 2 children and 4 estate workers with an axe. Afterwards he drank muriatic acid but was caught and died in jail 7 weeks later from self starvation.

pYoje TIL the Steve Martin, Rick Moranis comedy, My Blue Heaven, and the Martin Scorsese film Goodfellas both came out in 1990, and were both based on the life mobster Henry Hill. Goodfellas was based on the book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi, while the screenplay for My Blue Heaven was written by his wife

8WV4 TIL that crows in Tokyo often steal wire coathangers to add to their nests, which cause blackouts when built on power lines