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TIL the revolutionary Sega Model 2 arcade system used 3D texture mapping directly licensed from Lockheed Martin, which had developed the technology for use in military flight simulators

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lo6YA TIL Back in 2011, the travelling Picadilly Circus was scheduled to perform in Joplin, Missouri, until an EF-5 Tornado destroyed most of the city, rendering them unable to perform. As a result, the circus employees used their two adult elephants to help drag debris off the roads for first responders.
xVWj1 TIL the city of Carmel, IN has the most roundabouts per city in the US, with a total of 138. Since regular intersections were replaced with roundabouts, the number of accidents here has reduced by 40%.
rRDyo TIL A 4th century female poet wrote a poem on a 29 x 29 grid of characters that produced 3000 more rhyming poems when read in different directions.
LdWm TIL Lyndon Johnson was the only President sworn in by a woman; it occurred on Air Force One after Kennedy’s assassination.
ApwB TIL When Louis Pasteur was working on the Rabies vaccine, if he or his assistants got infected, they were to be shot in the head