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TIL that in 2013, a 15 year old Alabama boy committed suicide after learning he might be placed on the sex offender registry after “streaking” at a high school football game.

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VBO1G TIL That Nasubi, the Japanese comedian who endured one of the harshest reality TV shows, is credited as the first video game live streamer. In November of 1998, he was playing the Densha de Go! on the PS1 in front of a livestreamed audience for 3 straight days
EgJ60 TIL that right before the legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki quit his job to pursue directing, he was creating artwork for an anime series based on “Anne of Green Gables” - a 1908 Children’s novel set in Maritime Canada.
R7RV4 TIL that despite being 30+ years old, the Sega Master System still sells roughly 150,000 units in Brazil and technically, has yet to be discontinued.
yjy8 TIL that in 1930 a zoologist went to Syria and brought back 11 newly discovered hamsters. Only 2 of them bred and their offspring were sent to laboratories around the world. Today, the hamsters you see in pet stores are most likely descendants of these two hamsters.
0wWEj TIL that filmmaker Ralph Bakshi grew up in an all-black neighborhood in Washington, D.C. and got his mother's permission to attend the local segregated school with his friends. The school called the police and, afraid whites would riot if they learned that a white student was attending, expelled him