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TIL Playstation 2 games are still being developed and released with two games coming out as recent as last month

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j6A8j TIL of Thomas “Shang” Draper, a crime lord in late 1800s NYC who ran a prostitution house with removable panels on the walls, making it easy for him and his associates to rob clients.
P1K5G TIL gross tonnage is not the weight of a ship, instead it is calculated from the ship's internal volume using a logarithmic function
90Y6 TIL on this day in 1979 the original Sony Walkman was released.
kOJrW TIL people who speak languages that do not have a future verb tense are better at self regulation because they don't see "me" and "future me" as separate entities.
8ePD8 TIL: The sahara desert was full of life several thousand years ago and there's even ancient rock art in the sahara that shows animals that only live in wetlands. Some historians believe the cultural memory of the green sahara drying up still exists today as the story of the garden of eden.