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TIL: in 1998 Microsofts “DirectX” team pitched a new gaming console known as the “directXbox”. Later shortened to “Xbox”.

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E1Pgw TIL: Nazis' infamous lebensborn racial purity programme, forcing "Aryan" fit women from occupied countries to bear their children. The famous Abba singer Anni-Frid Lyngstad is one of these children
OGBGX TIL that otters are considered apex predators. Giant otter are opportunistic, taking whatever species are most locally abundant. If fish are unavailable otters will hunt caimans (species related to alligators) and anacondas.
kDQE TIL of United Airlines Flight 811, a regularly scheduled flight between Sydney and San Francisco that on February 24, 1989 had a cargo door fail at 22,000 feet resulting in explosive decompression. 9 passengers were blown out and killed. Two flight attendants were nearly lost as well
mw7R TIL At age 14 “White Boy Rick” was hired as an informant for the DEA in Detroit, rose to the top of the drug game while helping to incarcerate the real kingpins. He is now in prison because DEA refuses to admit to hiring him.
RxD4 TIL Leonardo DiCaprio was holding up filming on ‘Django Unchained’ due to his reluctance to use racial epithets at his fellow actors. Samuel L. Jackson finally pulled him aside, explaining 'Motherfucker, this is just another Tuesday for us’