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TIL Kwanzaa was created in California in 1966
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TIL Capcom’s best selling and arguably most popular game in the MegaMan series, MegaMan 2, was done in the developers’ free time as Capcom did not want to allocate resources to the game due to poor sales of MM1.
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TIL the actor who played Boba Fett in the original trilogy was cast solely based on his uncannily fitting the costume which had already been made.
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TIL The U.S. home ownership rate is at a 48-year low.
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TIL King George V was given a lethal injection of cocaine and morphine (to preserve his dignity) so that his death, declared at 11:55 p.m., would be announced in the morning edition of The Times newspaper.
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TIL that British longbows in the 1600's netted much longer firing ranges than the contemporary Native American Powhaten tribe's bows (400 yds vs. 120 yds, respectively). Colonists from Jamestown once turned away additional longbows for fear that they might fall into the Powhaten's hands.