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TIL That Niko Bellic is only 30 years old in GTA 4.

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R5wX1 TIL in 1986, before fitness tracking was popular, Puma released a fitness tracking sneaker called the RS-Computer Shoe. It came with a disk, cable, a 46 page instruction manual, and cost $200. It did not sell well and people asked questions such as "Why would you want to know how far you run?"
9YlmM TIL it's estimated that 16% of the world's gold and 22% of the world's silver is contained in Japan's electronics alone- so much that Japan is asking its citizens to donate old electronics to make the Olympic medals.
RW11 TIL There is an island in the Bahamas whose inhabitants are 20 pigs that swim off the beaches all day
DOng TIL Jesse James once gave a widow he was staying with $1400 to pay off a debt collector. He told her to give him the money and get a receipt. James then hid and waited for the debt collector to leave, and then robbed the man as he left the widow’s home.
QN7m6 TIL that the Star Wars Episode I soundtrack, which came out two weeks before the film. Contained a track that spoiled a pivotal plot point in the film