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TIL the game Ōkami was named the "least commercially successful winner of a game of the year award" in the 2010 version of the Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition

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R7QRl TIL that puffins can use sticks to scratch their itches. This is the first evidence that seabirds can use tools.
8eK6K TIL that the creator of Lululemon deliberately chose a name with multiple 'L's to sound Western to Japanese buyers, who often have difficulty pronouncing the letter, and that the name otherwise "means nothing".
x6Prg TIL Ada Lovelace, daughter of poet Lord Byron, is considered by some to be the first computer programmer. She wrote notes on Charles Babbage's "Analytical Engine" that included an algorithm for calculating a sequence of numbers. Lovelace envisioned the machine creating art and music.
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