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TIL Nintendo changed the famous background E. Honda bathhouse stage on Street Fighter because the rising sun symbol is inappropriate

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kmyg TIL the original voice for Siri was a woman named Susan Bennett. She was paid hourly to record nonsense phrases for a third party company, and only later learned that she had provided Apple with “all of the sounds of the English language”, which they could then formed into any response.
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