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TIL of the iQue Player, a handheld Nintendo 64 system released only in China after video game consoles were banned there in 2003. Content servers were still up until 2018.

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nPeP TIL John Lennon referenced his beating women in the lyrics to Getting Better. In a Playboy interview he said. “I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence. I will have to be a lot older before I can face in public how I treated women as a youngster.”“
vPXJ8 TIL Sudan has more pyramids than Egypt. After being destroyed and looted, the ones left are at risk of disappearing due to shifting desert sands. Theres a multi-billion dollar project to plant a line of trees across the entire African continent to create ground stability and stop the desert spread.
R5n9j TIL that +/- 42k years ago, the “Adam’s Event”, a reversal of Earth’s magnetic poles, may have led to the extinction of mega fauna, Neanderthals, and forced humans into caves as the earth experienced intense periods of cosmic radiation, solar winds, electrical storms, and drastic climate change.
ne4VW TIL the US government invested $90,000 promoting Vidalia onions as part of a promotion with Shrek (with tax payer money)
mxlEx TIL a UFC fan happened to get fighter Rory MacDonald’s old cell phone number and was selecting Rory’s walk out music via text messages without Rory or the UFC finding out for years.