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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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grEeD TIL that the species of bear depicted on the California State Flag has been extinct since 1924. Similar in size to the Kodiak Bear, the California Grizzly Bear was aggressive, commonly weighed over 1,000 pounds, averaged 8 ft tall and could run 35 mph.
Y7lr TIL that in 1870 Gilbert Bates marched 400 miles through England carrying the American flag to prove that the English did not hate Americans. He was honored as a hero.
MeA1A TIL of Hellfire Clubs, 18th century social clubs, extant in UK, where men and women gathered to perform socially unacceptable actions while simultaneously mocking religion, satirically, in a time when it was blasphemous to do so.
NY6b TIL the SR-71 Blackbird outran nearly 4000 missiles fired at it during its service life
xV41g TIL that the Republic of Taiwan is 71 years old.