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TIL that the Sony PS2 is the #1 selling gaming console in history. (155m units)

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5M5B TIL George Aldrich has worked for NASA for over 40 years, and his job is to smell things. This is to ensure that there are no unpleasant smells on ISS and the shuttle. Oh and his nose also gets calibrated and tested every four months.
enYk TIL beer companies have started moving to curved glasses as people drink 60% quicker from them
KNDB TIL Häagen-Dazs is actually jibberish that was meant to sound Danish and the company even sued a competitor for daring to use foreign sounding jibberish as their brand name too
9YbaM TIL:In 2005, 51% of graduating students at BYU were already married
8ka TIL there is an international treaty called the Convention on the Rights of the Child which says all children are born with fundamental rights and freedoms equal to that of all human beings. Only two governments have not signed: The United States and Somalia.