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TIL F-Zero X for the Nintendo 64 was the first racing game to run at 60 Frames Per Second

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ZpnXD TIL in the village of Aas, France, there is a whistled language based on the Béarnese dialect of Gascon in Occitan. The language died in 1999 with the last speaker, Anne Pallas. Revitalization efforts involved activists traveling to La Gomera in the Canary Islands of Spain.
rRly TIL There is a robot that is 4m tall, has a Gatling gun, and is controlled by your Iphone that you can purchase for $1.35m
NQX1 TIL That Vasalgel, the non-profit US FDA-conforming treatment to provide reversible, chemical male birth control, was rejected from crowdfunding on kickstarter for being ‘too medical’
77ZO TIL that Godwin’s law states that “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Hitler approaches 1”
J16m4 TIL that Wing Chun kung-fu is allegedly named after Yim Wing Chun, a legendary 17th century woman who was taught the martial art by a Shaolin Buddhist nun to defeat a local bully who was trying to force Yim to marry him