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TIL that Sega's First Console (SG-1000) was released the same day as Nintendo's First Console (Famicom), July 15 1983

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Z84pp TIL that Lady Gaga admited that Kiss FM was the only radio station to correctly censor the song during the chorus when she replaces "poker face" with "fuck her face". Although not in the official lyrics, the switch can be heard every second repetition of the phrase during the chorus.
OBX1 TIL During WW2 a private and a friend volunteered for a reconnaissance mission into an occupied city in the Netherlands. After his friend got killed, he liberated the city, single-handedly!
b9JO7 TIL That Salvator Mundi, a painting of Christ holding a crystal orb, by Leonardo Da Vinci, is the current most expensive piece of art ever sold at auction. In 2017, it sold for $450.3M. In contrast, in 2005, at pre restoration, it sold for less than $10,000, as sellers believed it was a mere copy.
GAPjN TIL That in 2009 the king of Thailand Vajiralongkorn promoted his dog Fufu to the rank of Air chief marshal.
GbQJ TIL The cannibal people of Futuna allegedly killed and feasted upon the entire population of neighbouring island Alofi in a single raid in the nineteenth century.