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TIL the Game Boy was only discontinued in 2003.
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TIL in a 3-day-long 2002 theater hostage situation, Russian forces pumped an unknown gas into the ventilation system that caused everyone inside to fall unconscious. Troops were able to kill the 40 militants while they were blacked out, saving nearly 800 people with minimal casualties.
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TIL Paris has public sparkling water fountains throughout the city to encourage more people to drink water.
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TIL of Adrian Carton de Wiart who served in the Boer War, First World War, and Second World War. He was shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip, and ear; was blinded in his left eye; survived two plane crash and tunneled out of a prisoner-of-war camp.
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TIL that in 2008, the city of Chicago sold the rights to collect revenue from its parking meters to a foreign-owned company, receiving a sum of $1.2 billion against a 75 year lease. Investors have collected $2.1 billion so far, for a yearly RoR of only 4.3%. Chicago has made a handsome profit.
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TIL that whilst in the uterus, foals have soft capsules called eponychium covering their hooves. Also knows as "golden slippers" these capsules protect the mother from injury during pregnancy and birth.