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TIL there was a Star Fox game released 22 years after being developed

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nWwNW Today I learned that you need 64,000 gallons of oil per year to run the amount of wind turbines that match the energy output of 1 900 mw nuclear power plant.
xVeA7 TIL- Boston University did a neuropathologically study on 111 former NFL Players. 110 out of 111 were diagnosed with CTE, the degenerative disease caused by repeated blows to the head.
6EKo8 TIL for 26 years, German feminists Ottilie Assing and African-American Abolitionist Frederick Douglass were believed to be having an affair. I’m August 1884, after learning Douglass remarried to Helen Pitts, Assing killed herself by swallowing cyanide in a public park in Paris.
xwK1 TIL how Oskar Schindler - in addition to saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during WW2 by hiring them to work in his factory - purposely recalibrated the machines to produce bogus artillery shells for the German war effort.
QJ8e9 TIL: After Queen's success with Bohemian Rhapsody, sacks of fan mail poured in from behind the Iron Curtain, addressed to "Queen, London". It was mistakenly delivered to Buckingham Palace.