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TIL that Leonard Nimoy was the narrator of Seaman, a 2000 Sega Dreamcast virtual pet simulator that had you use a microphone to converse with a moody, sarcastic man-fish, developed by Yutaka Saito (known for The Tower).

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yRMp TIL there is a lucky cribbage board that gets passed along from the oldest submarine in the US fleet to the next once the oldest one is decommissioned. It currently resides in a submarine launched in 1978.
wLroE TIL Schlitz was the first beermaker in the world to use a brown bottle. In 1902, Schlitz surpassed Pabst as the best selling American beer.
A1Vd TIL that Michael Bay walked out of the screening of Friday the 13th (2009), a movie that he produced, because it had too much sex.
P1xae TIL that at the time of The Titanic’s sinking, a magazine story about a ship sinking from an iceberg collision in the Atlantic was out in circulation. The author of this story Thornton Jenkins Hains, was writing under a pseudonym after having been disgraced in society for involvement in a murder.
M7gk0 TIL that the fastest growing career fields in the U.S. through 2031 are expected to be nurse practioners