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TIL that Apple made a console back in 1996 called the "Pippin" (a play on words imo - pippin is a type of apple) in co-operation with Bandai. Needless to say, only 42,000 were ever sold, mostly due to its price of $599, and was discontinued after only 1 year when good ol' Steve Jobs returned.

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DQVYe TIL that "administrator" is actually a gendered term and that the female version is "administratrix"
01KN TIL that Anne Hathaway wanted to be a nun when she was young. However, she lost respect for the Catholic church at age fifteen when “I realized my older brother was gay, and I couldn’t support a religion that didn’t support my brother.”
LQoj0 TIL Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon, only joined Vietnam in the 18th century and was originally part of Cambodia. Cambodians still call it by its Khmer name Prey Nokor
PgRn TIL there are such things as “functional addicts”–people who rely on stimulants such as meth to juggle their multiple jobs and responsibilities
Y7vV7 TIL A 17 year old youth who killed a 15 year old girl was caught after a sting that included staging a video game competition then he was led to believe a very wealthy and powerful entertainment executive wanted to help him and make his problems go away, leading to his confession