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TIL despite having been discontinued in most of the world in the mid-1990s and having exited the video game console market, the 8-bit Sega Master System is still produced in Brazil, and its market share rivals more modern gaming systems there

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epyP5 TIL of the Glasgow effect, a term which refers to the lower life expectancy of residents of the Scottish city compared to the rest of the UK and Europe. Some hypotheses for this effect include stress, especially in childhood, leading to ill health; violent gang culture; and rate of premature births.
ADoyo TIL that Lusia Harris of Delta State University was the first woman drafted into the NBA taken in the seventh round of the 1977 NBA draft by the New Orleans Jazz.
yydw TIL That a driver in Japan raced and outdrove a collapsing tunnel he was driving through, in his WRX RA.
R5p89 TIL Legendary chef Jacques Pépin was a rising chef in the NYC high end restaurant scene when in 1974 he suffered a near fatal car accident with injuries so severe he had to quit daily chef work. Instead of quitting the business he instead reinvented himself as an educator, a teacher and an author.
VMG84 TIL That John Snow was an early pioneer of epidemiology and used diligent research and contact tracing to identify the source of a cholera epidemic in Soho, London. Officials initially rejected his findings but a detractor eventually published findings confirming Snow's assertions.