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TIL that If you hear the GameCube menu background music sped up to 16x you will hear the same tune of the Famicom’s Disk System startup.

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kmne TIL that Big Bertha, a gun used during WW1, was so powerful that troops had to move 300 yards away and put cotton wads in their ears, eyes, and nose, as well as open their mouths, so that their eardrums weren’t burst by the blast presure
GYJG1 TIL Lisa Nowak operated the robotic arm on the International Space Station and also became the first astronaut ever to be arrested. She is remembered for wearing maximum-absorption garments—government-issued astronaut diapers—during her 950-mile drive from Houston to Orlando
OGZ7Y Today I learned that there is a Microsoft Excel World Championship where people compete based on their Excel formula skills and it’s (like?) an eSport
E1XGP TIL 6 students were killed after falling near UC Berkeley when their balcony sheared off. It emerged that the contractors who built the complex had paid $26.5 million in settlements for previous defect cases, but the information had not been available to the state construction licensing authorities.
D1VBg TIL about 'Fast Eddie' Maher, a security driver who stole £1.2m and fled to America