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TIL Sirius XM was once two separate services.

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1bpX TIL Nintendo still offers online support for the Game Boy and N64.
grjKL TIL that Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has its own dialect of English called Pittsburghese.
9vAM TIL A movie theater accidentally showed Paranormal Activity instead of Madagascar 3 to a theater full of children
BkwD TIL that in 1968, the first instance on US television of physical contact between a black man (Harry Bellafonte) and a white woman (Petula Clark, who took hold of his arm when signing) made it to the screen only because Clark and her husband, destroyed all the takes where the contact did not occur.
JYyOk TIL Betty Robinson, an Olympic runner, was involved in a plane crash in 1931 and was wrongly pronounced dead upon first being discovered. She spend 7 months in a coma and it took her 2 years to learn to walk normally again. In 1936, she returned to the US olympic team and won gold in the relay.