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TIL at one point in GoldenEye’s development, reloading your weapon was going to be triggered by removing and reinserting the N64 Rumble Pack as if you were removing a magazine on a gun.

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8aX5K TIL that only 15% of Americans can read at a University Bachelor’s degree level, with most people reading at a 7th to 8th grade level.
Xpo8 TIL there is a horror movie about an Orca who exacts revenge on the crew that murdered his mate. The actual Orcas in the film were a mated pair named Nepo and Yaka. When Nepo died 3 years later of pneumonia, Yaka stayed while he took his final breaths. She refused to leave him.
WkVoB TIL female investors consistently outperform males over the long term because the produce less testosterone (so they take less risks) and take more time and require more information before making decisions and are seemingly immune to the euphoria that engulfs most male traders during volatile market
dDmo9 TIL about actor Jonathan Kendrick Lewis who was arrested three times between 2011 and 2012. In September 2012, he bludgeoned his landlady and her cat to death before falling off the roof of her house where he had been renting accommodation.
bae4 TIL approximately 62.5 percent of the 24,000 chemicals added to the TSCA inventory since 1982 cannot be “meaningfully identified by the public” because their names are claimed as “trade secrets.” If a chemical’s identity is not known, it is very difficult, if not impossible to monitor human exposure