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TIL three of the top four greatest videogames of all time, as ranked in 55 gaming publications, are on the Nintendo 64

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Ke7E TIL a man in Florida has collected about 15 million golf balls from golf course water hazards in the past 14 years, selling them for up to $2 each.
kOblB TIL that when yakuza boss Tadamasa Goto wanted to have a liver transplant performed in USA in 2001, he donated 100 thousand dollars to the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. The gangster jumped the queue and got the liver; that year, 186 people in the Los Angeles region died waiting for livers.
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