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TIL that 1997 video game Golden Eye 007 is so well appreciated, that it was placed on exhibit in the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

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4k4Yo TIL Avro Vulcan bomber pilots, on nuclear missions, would wear a standard black eyepatch to protect one eye from the flash of a nuclear bomb. Taking it off once they were blinded in the exposed eye.
rNK7y TIL the Mitsubishi Group, along with its subsidiaries across the globe, possesses assets worth over $10 trillion and an annual revenue of more than $1 trillion, making it the world's largest conglomerate.
KOy7a TIL Gerbils are illegal as pets in California due to its climate being so similar to the gerbil's natural desert habitat that state officials are concerned that gerbils who escape or are released into the wild could establish feral colonies
ANKn TIL a Dad ran into the 400m semifinals of an olympic race to help his son finish after he pulled his hamstring.
m1RXY TIL that due to road signs bearing '420' being stolen, the Colorado Department of Transportation replaced the Mile Marker 420 sign on I-70 east of Denver with one reading 419.99. "69" mile marker signs were also frequently stolen - these were replaced with "68.5 mile" ones.