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TIL in 1995, the company Namco patented “auxiliary games” that play while the main game loads, thus forbid other game titles to have those. The patent expired earlier this year.

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nWEJ9 TIL The Ailurarctos is an extinct species of panda. Like modern pandas, they fed on bamboo. Fossil records indicated that they existed 6 to 7 million years ago
1a1YW TIL about a mechanic who decided to make a bulletproof (and bombproof) bulldozer to destroy a town
GY7GG TIL, that in 1917, British forces were not ready for a head on assault of Jerusalem, so British intelligence created a plan where cigarettes would be air dropped by recon planes for the Ottomans everyday up until the day of the assault, where they instead dosed all the cigarettes with opium.
JYMMm TIL Purina, owned by Nestle, has been accused of poisoning thousands of pets through chemically-laced pet food
7rMbp TIL when Joseph Stalin's first wife died, he was so overcome with grief he threw himself into her grave during the funeral. Later, secret policemen arrived at the funeral, looking for Stalin (at the time a wanted fugitive); he was forced to flee the service early by jumping the graveyard's fence.