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TIL of the iQue Player, an version of the Nintendo 64 developed by Nintendo and Chinese-American scientist Wei Yen and released in 2003. The system itself was self-contained in the controller. Games for the system were loaded through a memory card and could only be bought through kiosks and online

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neQ4B TIL that Will Sampson had never acted before playing Chief in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, the producers were just looking for a tall Native American and chose the 6'7" (2.01 m) Sampson after a car dealer called them and said "the biggest sonofabitch Indian came in the other day!".
xVEyk TIL of a "pineberry", a white hybrid of the strawberry. It looks just like one, but has the taste of a pineapple. It had been "rescued" by Dutch farmers, and later on, commercially sold in the 2010's. At the moment, they're grown (only) in Japan. They're ~$10.00 per berry.
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