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TIL The first 500,000 units of the Playstation 3 came with a Blu Ray of Talladega Nights a month before its release.

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LkK5d TIL Scientists are digging up Adélie penguin guano(poop) to study millennia of Antarctica’s history.
x7Mo TIL that there was a proposed initiative to divide California into six different states. If passed, it would have created a new richest state and a new poorest state, both being adjacent to one another.
Y7vdB Tooth decay first ravaged human society 15,000 years ago
xVXr7 TIL James Smithson, the founding donor of the Smithsonian Institute, was English and never actually stepped foot in the United States. His reasoning behind leaving such a vast inheritance to a foreign country is unknown.
wXLP TIL that Porsche produced the first hybrid vehicle in 1901. It was a series hybrid using wheel hub motors mounted in each wheel, and powered by electricity delivered from both batteries and a small generator.