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TIL the Lion King game for Genesis was so difficulty because Disney instructed the developers to make it hard enough that it could not be beaten in a rental period, thus hopefully forcing players to buy it instead.

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J1rRv TIL North Korea is ranked highest in the world in terms of the percentage of population in slavery, with 10.4 percent (2,696,000 ppl) enslaved as per the Walk Free Foundation's 2018 Global Slavery Index. NK is the only country in the world that has not explicitly criminalized any form of slavery.
vP0Dx TIL Paul Robeson was an African American lawyer, stage actor (in New York and London), singer, and pro athlete, who won 15 letters in four varsity sports at Rutgers, was elected Phi Beta Kappa and became his class valedictorian after earning a scholarship at age 17 in 1915
p8QYe TIL Boston was named after a town in England, which was named after this guy. Boston is a contraction of Botwulfs town.
E17Gw TIL that the Mortal Kombat series used smashed vegetables to make many of its gruesome sound effects
9mKr TIL that Leonardo da Vinci invented the Miter Lock in 1497, which is still in use today including in the Panama and Suez Canals.