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TIL that before The Incredible Crash Dummies came out on SNES, a different isometric version was being developed. It was cancelled after just two months.

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OoOQ1 TIL Founded in 1898, the focus for Belgium's Royal Museum for Central Africa has shifted from the degradation the Congolese people faced under Belgian rule to an anthropological celebration and a space for contemporary African art. After a $84 million facelift, it became the AfricaMuseum in 2018
w74W TIL there was a character as popular as a meme in World War II named Kilroy. The phrase “Kilroy was here” was graffitied by soldiers across the world during the war, and nobody knows who the real original Kilroy was.
NXZmE TIL Milan-based "epidemiC" crew submitted source code of a computer virus at the 49th International Art Biennale of Venice in 2001, claiming computer viruses can be an art form
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