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TIL the video game company SEGA gets it’s name from SErvice GAmes of Japan, a company that they bought.

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6OOw TIL cave art from 15000 years ago depicts an extinct buffalo/cattle hybrid. Scientists call it The Higgs Bison (because of its elusive nature)
W7oYA TIL that the youngest mother ever was 5 years old.
X0ZZE TIL the American Dennis The Menace comic strip is still being produced, after being first introduced in 1951.
pLaG TIL that when the Titanic was found in 1985, the famous Grand Staircase (appearing in many films of the sinking) was missing. During the filming of the 1997 movie, the replica was torn out by the water when the set was flooded; the real staircase was likely ripped out of the ship in the same way.
VBMGk TIL that Greenland sharks may live for over 500 years, making them longest-living vertebrate. They grow so slowly, that they reach their sexual maturity approximately at age of 150.