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TIL leading supercomputer scientist Satoshi Matusoka would pursue his career path on the advice of his friend, Satoru Iwata, after the two worked on early NES titles together

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9w6m7 TIL Peter O'Toole once had an abominable MacBeth debut that drew "fits of laughter" and had "a dimly lit collection of black plastic phalluses swaying in the wind"
LkRXV TIL that poultry farming is associated with 9 times higher pancreatic cancer risk
0dpQj TIL there is a monastery in Florida constructed from remaining blocks from a dismantled monastery that was built in Spain in 1133 AD.
kJorm TIL that after Sam Cooke sang "A Change is Gonna Come" on The Tonight Show (Feb 7, 1964), the network lost the only recording of the performance. Cooke elected never to perform it again in his lifetime (he was murdered in Dec of '64), due to the song's complexity and ominous nature.
OMkX TIL A Soviet probe, “Luna 15”, crashed into the surface of the moon while Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong were still on it.