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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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oRXE TIL Micahel Bay won “The Whore Award” from a website for most product placement in a film.The film was Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
JY9Ym TIL about two little-known places with the world's shortest names. "Å" (population 150) is a tiny fishing hamlet in the Lofoten Islands, a granite chain in north-west Norway, in the Arctic circle, while "Y" is an even smaller French village, with only 29 inhabitants.
69BQ TIL Connan O'Brien and Andy Richter provided voice overs for characters in the new HALO 4 video game.
ywAw TIL of Shirley Babashoff, American Olympic swimmer who acquired the nickname ‘Surly Shirley’ for her constant accusations that E German athletes were doping. Turns out she was right.
jNAGE TIL that in January 1896 the first ever speeding ticket was given out. The driver,Walter Arnold, was going 8mph when the law only permitted cars to go at 2mph