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TIL The SE-GA voice at the start of the Sonic the Hedgehog took up 1/8 of the cartridge space

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Y7WNP TIL James Strang, leader of a Mormon splinter-group, crowned himself "king" of his church on Beaver Island, Michigan for 6 years. His "reign" was so hated by the locals that he was assassinated in 1856. His killers were kept in an unlocked jail cell and fined $1.25