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TIL that before his death in 2001 – former Sega Chairman, Isao Okawa, wanted the Xbox to be backwards compatible with Dreamcast games.

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xM5D TIL “Confirmed bachelor” used to be a term used to refer to homosexual men.
xGM1 TIL in 1995, convicted killer Daniel Luther Heiss discovered that the key pictured on his prisoners’ information handbook was the masterkey for the whole prison. Fellow inmate Shane Baker, a trained jeweller, replicated it and both escaped.
R7Xl9 TIL Adolf Hitler employed 15 women to act as food testers, checking his food for poison.
JNQj TIL that MythBusters once fired a cannonball at a bomb disposal range…and missed. Instead, it flew over 700 yards and through a bedroom in which a family was sleeping, eventually coming to a stop in a minivan.
BgM7r TIL that a French Soldier called Albert Severin Roche, had personally captured 1,180 prisoners. He was called the "first soldier of France" by allied supreme commander Marechal Foch