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TIL the Sega Master System is still alive in Brazil with new games still being made

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6Lbl TIL: The New Zealand government agreed to remove the right of workers to organise trade unions in the film production industry, and to give money to big budget films made in New Zealand in return for Warner Bros making The Hobbit films in New Zealand.
rR5dw TIL of Thomas Francis Meagher, born 1823. He was an Irish nationalist, got exiled to Tasmania, escaped to New York, visited Costa Rica, fought in the Civil War, became governor of Montana, and died when he fell off a boat at age 43.
LQVKp TIL during WWI Momčilo Gavrić at the age of 8 lost his entire family to a heinous war crime, he then enlisted in a nearby artillery unit and identified the location of the enemy soldiers that killed his family, then participated in the bombardment that wiped out that entire enemy unit
6EEMl TIL of Yakhchāls - Ancient freezers used to make and store ice in the deserts of Iran.
m1aPM TIL lobsters pee out of their faces to communicate