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TIL That Dreamcast games are still being made

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R7Q19 TIL physician Ben Goldacre publicly questioned the credibility of nutritionist Gillian McKeith's diploma from American Association of Nutritional Consultants, after successfully applying for and receiving the same diploma on behalf of his dead cat Henrietta.
Y7D6Z TIL I learned that the surveillance technology in the 1998 movie "Enemy of the State", which shows the NSA hunting Will Smith using live satellite feeds, didn't exist until a government research engineer saw the movie and kicked started the development of Wide Area Motion Imagery (WAMI).
8ex7P TIL Hitler's book Mein Kampf has been turned into a manga
mG7O TIL in the US west of Washington DC there’s a National Radio Quiet Zone - 13,000 square miles (34,000 sq km) of radio silence where cellphones are banned
DQVLg TIL Only 47 people live on the Pitcairn Islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Almost all of the residents are descendants of the mutineers of HMS Bounty, a British ship in 1790.