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TIL Seth Rogan has repeatedly tried to make a movie about the 90's battle between Sega and Nintendo, but keeps getting turned down.

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9YZ0Q TIL Police in Japan still wear white gloves after The Beatles toured there in 1966 and the authorities were worried about holding crowds of screaming girls back with bare hands.
GY4D4 TIl that the first use of the 'temporary insanity defense' in the U.S. WAS WHEN IN 1859, a Congressman SHOT AND KILLED a man who was having an affair with his wife. THE man killed was Philip Barton Key II,SON OF THE STAR spangled Banner author Francis Scott Key.
oBnk7 TIL Canada and USA share the longest border and most mutually beneficial international relationship in the world.
grXlL TIL in 1951, a Californian engineer designed a unique system to transport water to the southern deserts, using 400 artificial geysers that would throw water in an arc at 400 miles per hour through the air to be caught by a funnel at the next geyser.
xl47 TIL that during the Holocaust in Poland, a member of the Nazi Party Albert Battel saved over a hundred Jews from liquidation by going into the ghetto with army trucks and transported the Jews to the barracks of the local Wehrmacht platoon, at there they were under the protection of the Wehrmacht.