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TIL the name "jaguar" comes from a Native American word meaning "he who kills with one leap."

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xVOEk TIL that on May 11, 1995, during the first E3, Sega announced their new Saturn console would cost $400 and shockingly had been shipped to select retailers that same day. During their keynote, Sony announced the Playstation would launch at $300. Sega would exit the console business six years later.
yrVl TIL In Iceland in the 70s a woman became convinced she’d subconsciously witnessed a murder, this led to six people being wrongly arrested and all confessing despite remembering nothing
7rxAM TIL The Smallpox virus is the first and only infectious human disease to be completely eradicated; the last known case occurred in 1978. Small quantities of the virus still exist in two secure laboratories though; one in the USA and the other in Russia.
1bBV TIL that before 1600, a game of chess could be won by capturing all of the opponent’s pieces, leaving a bare king; a style of play known as “annihilation”. In Medieval times, players considered it nobler to win by checkmate, so annihilation became a half win for a while, until it was abandoned.
OovyY TIL that traveling at the speed of light, it would take you 200,000 years to go across the Milky Way galaxy