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TIL the original Medal of Honor game (1999) - created by Steven Spielberg and credited with the popularisation of WW2 games, thus all the shooters that followed like BF, COD - was almost cancelled because of Columbine

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Y714G TIL that birds are taxonomically considered reptiles and crocodiles are more closely related to birds than lizards.
lmGr TIL British supermarket M&S is laser tattooing its avocados instead of labelling them, saving 10 tonnes of paper and 5 tonnes of glue per year.
4XPEw TIL: The story that Newton was hit on the head by an apple is almost certainly apocryphal. All Newton himself ever said was that the idea of gravity came to him as he sat in a contemplative mood, and was occasioned by the fall of an apple.
W7pZB TIL the Therac 25, a computer controlled radiation therapy machine, killed six people as a result of a computer bug that allowed the machine to inject lethal doses of radiation into patients.
Om01 TIL Queen Elizabeth does not need a passport. Since all British passports are issued in the queen’s name, she just has to say that she is the queen.