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

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QJVyM TIL that heroin is an acetylated form of morphine. It is prescribed in the UK and elsewhere as diamorphine or diacetylmorphine.
695L7 TIL there is an over 2000ft Ancient Roman Road Tunnel in Naples that was in use for nearly 2000 years.
LQ6yv TIL Michael Jackson ordered his music video "Thriller" to be destroyed after being threatened with excommunication from his Jehovah's Witness faith. Michael later apologized and settled for the disclaimer at the start of the video
GgR4 TIL Actress Jodie Foster was born three years after her parents got divorced. She was conceived while her mom was visitin her dad for child support.
X0Ox8 TIL that inventor Elisha Gray, who lost the patent for the telephone to Alexander Graham Bell, also invented the first fax machine, using telegraph lines to transmit handwriting and documents in 1887