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TIL that the former president of SEGA gave the company $730M as part of his dying will, in the form of stocks and debt forgiveness, covering the loss from the the Dreamcast failure.

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16V1V TIL about Norman Cahners, 1936 Harvard class president, U.S. Track & Field Olympic Trials qualifier, inventor of the modern pallet, Navy Officer, and magazine publishing empire founder.
PrGe TIL That in the Amazon, butterflies will drink the tears of turtles to provide necessary sodium in their diet.
lo06r TIL Irish people drink more tea than the British. And while India and China produce most of the world's tea, neither of them is in the top 10 tea drinking countries.
P10AJ TIL that woolly mammoth proteins were just recently directly imaged for the first time. A scientist used an electron microscope to image the collagen protein of mammoth bone at the molecular level.
LQOxQ TIL Dogs prioritise the smell of humans over everything, according to an MRI of their brains, and view their owners as members of their family.