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TIL Nintendo released a Fire Emblem game for the SNES in 2000, long after the SNES became obsolete

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7X57 TIL That in just 36 years, the average price per Gigabyte of Hard drive storage has fallen from over $400,000 to ₵0.19
BrRrb TIL the Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab Kit was the world’s most dangerous toy,which included three sources of radiation and four uranium ores that are also radioactive. The kit, which first went on sale in 1950, came with an instruction booklet and pamphlet on how to prospect uranium.
rNKl0 TIL that some employers use surveillance tools originally developed for Pentagon and CIA to track staff behavior, emotions, fatigue, and productivity.
699nm TIL there was disagreement over the danger of black widow spider bites until a 1933 experiment where professor Allan Blair allowed himself to be bitten. Blair also hoped to determine whether multiple bites would build immunity, but the first bite proved so painful that he decided against it.
pY44b TIL of a man who was discovered to be unknowingly missing 90% of his brain, and was living a normal life.