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TIL Bionic Commando (PS3/360) is actually a remake of an older NES game with the same name

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E1gGW TIL the most powerful commercial radio station ever was WLW (700KHz AM), which during certain times in the 1930s broadcasted 500kW radiated power. At night, it covered half the globe. Neighbors within the vicinity of the transmitter heard the audio in their pots, pans, and mattresses.
KYkLQ TIL about the Zong Massacre. In 1781, the crew of the British slave ship Zong threw overboard a total of 142 African slaves, claiming a shortage of drinking water. The Zong's owners then made an insurance claim that was first denied, then litigated, granted, appealed, and finally rejected.
9wV1D TIL the founder of an AI girlfriend app, Replika, was inspired by a dystopian Black Mirror episode where a woman resurrects her dead boyfriend with AI, which goes horribly wrong.
nd6r TIL the last individual of a species is called an Endling. When it dies, the species is extinct.
gdgL TIL that in 1985, 2 men broke into Fran Drescher’s home and one of them raped Fran and her friend and gunpoint while Fran’s husband was tied up and forced to watch the ordeal.