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TIL that the original Xbox was code named project Midway after the battle where America defeated the Japanese

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W7okL TIL Keanu Reeves's father was busted for selling heroin, and sentenced to 10 years in prison. He was paroled early, but he'd very little contact after that.
b90R0 Today I learned about Project 100,000, which saw nearly 354,000 intellectually, physically, or mentally impaired men and women drafted into the US military during the height of the Vietnam war, going on to suffer casualty rates three times higher than that of normal soldiers.
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