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TIL that in the past, people would "download" games by copying the code by hand from magazines

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7y1x TIL that Jamie Foxx’s real name is Eric Marlon Bishop and he changed his name when he found that female comedians were often called first to perform. feeling that it was a name ambiguous enough to disallow any biases.
R50V4 TIL that in 2017 a prominent body armor manufacturer worked with a now defunct Airsoft company to create a set of fully functional Mandalorian themed body armor.
g8D7 TIL the vast majority of Earth’s gold and platinum is found in its core. The reason these elements are so rare on the surface is because they mostly sunk to the core when the planet was molten.
v94L TIL during WW2 Nazi German forces designed explosive laden chocolate bars for Winston Churchill knowing his weakness for them, believing that it’d be an easy way to kill him. They also made explosive laden coal pieces, thermos flasks and mess tins among many others. An alert MI5 foiled these plans.
ZpPEY TIL A popular rapper Corey "C-Murder" Miller became popular in the 1990s until he... Well, committed a murder and was sentenced to life in prison.