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TIL Star Wars Episode I: Racer holds the Guinness record as the best-selling sci-fi racing game, having worldwide sales of 3.12 million and beating other series like Wipeout and F-Zero. The team had to develop their physics simulation in the game from only a few short clips of the film given to them

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XE18P If you have some free space at home, a Turbo Union RB199 engine, previously used in the Tornado jet (not clear which variant), is on sale on eBay.
7r5EZ TIL that Gorda, CA is home to the most consistently expensive gasoline in the entire U.S.
yQv9e TIL of Rope Memory where women would weave SOFTWARE by hand for the Apollo program
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ZwEG TIL Alexey Pajitnov, the creator of TETRIS(1984) did not receive any royalties from one of the most popular video game titles until 1996 as the rights were owned by his employer the Soviet government.