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TIL Disney’s Aladdin on the Sega Genesis is the 3rd best selling Genesis game after Sonic 1 and 2

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ANR0d TIL most plastics are more expensive than gasoline by weight . The average consumer only thinks gas is expensive compared to plastic because they buy more gas than plastic.
XE0L6 TIL in 1996 Cory Foulk competed the Ironman Hawaii barefoot on a 61 pound beach cruiser promotion the World Triathlon Corporation to add rules enforcing footwear and race style bicycles.
4B4o TIL when someone asked British PM Margaret Thatcher if she was concerned about Germany beating England in football, she said “No, we already beat them twice this century at their national game.”
Yp8BZ TIL on November 10, 1903. Mary Anderson invented an automatic car window cleaning device controlled from within the car, called the "Windshield Wiper".
BGZL TIL that the majority of the titanium used for building the SR-71 spy plane came from USSR through CIA dummy corporations.