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TIL I found out that SEGA's name comes from SErvice GAmes.

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nW987 TIL Lemmy Kilmister of Motörhead had a cameo in John Wayne Bobbitt’s pornographic film, where he finds Bobbitt’s severed penis and kicks it saying “Oh well, it’s not mine at least.”
vn1j TIL: Stella Liebeck, defendant in the 90’s McDonald’s Hot Coffee suit, suffered horrific third degree pelvic burns and spent eight days in the hospital for burn grafts. I grew up thinking this was a frivolous case for a victim that suffered no injury at all.