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TIL Microsoft paid 75 million dollars to Rockstar games in order to get Grand Theft Auto IV on their Xbox 360 and prevent from being exclusive to Sony’s PlayStation 3

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EgOyX TIL the label who signed Casiopea (famous jazz fusion band) also signed The Stalin (famous punk rock band). Always though Alfa Records was only City Pop for some reason.
5Yo4P TIL on 1642, Sir John Denham asked Charles I to spare Sir William Waller from execution, saying that "while Wither lives, Denham will not be the worst poet in England."
R8Ow TIL: When Sammy Davis Jr. took a swim in the pool at the New Frontier hotel & casino in Las Vegas in 1952, they drained the pool when he was done.
7NwX TIL The US Marines has enough equipment, ammo and supplies stored in Norwegian caves to support a 15000 man brigade for 30 days
NYme TIL that in 1993, an Indian airplane was hijacked at forced to land in Amritsar. Indian army Commandos then conducted an operation which killed 3 hijackers within 12 seconds, without any civilian casualties