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TIL that the controller which was included with the Xbox game "Steel Battalion" features two full-sized joysticks, three foot-pedals, a dial, a lever, multiple lights, forty buttons, and is three feet long.

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MedvB TIL about Orphan Drugs. Drug needed for diseases/conditions so rare there is zero profitability for drug companies to develop, so governments have to step in and fund them.
aw48M TIL that singer Helen Kane sued Fleischer Studios for basing Betty Boop's singing style on her and demanded royalties. She lost because Fleischer lawyers proved that Kane stole the style from African American singer Esther Jones.
R7yK4 TIL in 1859, the French government passed a law defining the frequency of musical notes, in the first move to standardize musical pitches.
16rnr TIL that the blue-ringed octopus' main venom (tetrodotoxin) is not produced by the animal itself, but is instead produced by bacteria that live in their salivary glands. Mothers will inject neurotoxin into their eggs to enable their babies to produce their own venom.
Oomb6 TIL Max Hamburgers is the first hamburger restaurant ever to outcompete McDonald's, forcing them to close their restaurant in Luleå, Sweden, in 1991. When McDonald's returned to the city a few years later, the popularity of Max Hamburgers once again forced McDonald's out of business in 2007