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TIL Sega launched an online gaming subscription service on console all the way back in 1994, massively predating Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo.

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kOK97 TIL that Jamie Foxx got the stage name of Jamie when he was starting out in doing stand up comedy and found out that female comedians usually got called up first on stage to perform. By choosing a more feminine sounding name, he tricked the promoters into putting him higher in the performing order.
x4G1 TIL: in 2010 a man had live explosives on his bag for three days unknowingly, when he got a phone call and a bomb squad showed up at his home. The explosives were placed and forgotten on his bag during an airport security exercise.
rRbko TIL In 1970 Eckhard and Christel Wehage frustrated with life in East Germany attempted to hijack a plane shortly after take-off to take them to West Germany. When they realised their escape plan had failed, they returned to their seats and shot themselves.
PYbPV TIL "Japan was changed forever by the devastating triple tragedy that unfolded on March 11, 2011, bringing an earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis." "The total cost of the catastrophe has been put at $286 billion by the World Bank, making it the most expensive disaster of all time."
JYvyB TIL that chlamidial cells are strange organisms closely related to blue-green algae that have DNA like bacteria but can only reproduce parasitically in foreign cells like a virus.