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TIL that Goldeneye for the Nintendo 64's popular multiplayer mode was created as an afterthought in six weeks at practically the last minute, without developper Rare or Nintendo knowing about it or wanting it.

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x6JZg TIL in an early version of his dictionary, Noah Webster defined "cat" with the entry: "The domestic cat needs no description. It is a deceitful animal, and when enraged, extremely spiteful."
VM87p TIL Viking women’s faces were more masculine than today’s women, while Viking men's faces looked more feminine than today's men, with a less prominent jaw and brow ridges. The ambiguous facial features mean that it is difficult to decide upon a Viking skeleton’s sex based on the skull alone
0wOgM TIL in 2019 researchers studied DNA samples from Loch Ness and ruled out the presence of the large animals that are commonly said to have been behind the monster sightings. However, the researchers did not discount the possibility that the sighted animal was a big eel.
a8GmN TIL in 1958, 14-year-old Caril Ann Fugate and her 18-year-old boyfriend killed her parents and strangled her two-year-old sister to death in their Nebraska home — then went on a multi-state rampage in which they murdered 8 people and killed at least 2 dogs with their bare hands
WMEN TIL the precursor to Monopoly was designed to illustrate how rents enrich property owners and impoverish tenants, and that when children play the game, it would “provoke their natural suspicion of unfairness.”