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TIL Elon Musk was an executive producer for Thank You for Smoking

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WQjX TIL that there is a Japanese robotics company named Cyberdyne, whose flagship product is the HAL.
5YR9r TIL: In 2011, Electronic Arts released DLC for Dragon Age 2 and Crysis 2 purchased directly through the game, bypassing Steam's 30% cut. This led to Valve taking down the store pages, and EA refusing to release any games on Steam between 2011 and 2020.
4XNnN TIL Hotmail was originally stylized as HoTMaiL in reference to HTML-based email formatting, which was new at the time.
BgwYy TIL that ancient Greek mythology included Mnemosyne, the Goddess of Memory; traditionally, she has a pool of water named after her in the Underworld, as a counterpart to the Lethe- The River of Forgetfulness. Before reincarnating, souls could drink from the Mnemosyne to remember their past lives
MewgA TIL The Internet weighs the same as a strawberry (approx. 50 grams). Because the internet is run by electrons, which has a very miniscule mass.