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TIL when the PlayStation 2 was launched, the U.S. Department of Defense considered it to be so advanced that it might enable hostile militaries, typically restricted from accessing such technology, to benefit from its capabilities.

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5WNk TIL that CEO Nancy Brinker of the Susan B. Komen foundation – the charity that raises breast cancer awareness by distributing pink ribbons – made $684,000 last year.
K5oG TIL 12 Russian botanists starved to death during the Siege of Leningrad (St. Petersburg) in the winter of 1941, rather than consuming the foodstuffs stored at the world’s first seed bank where they worked, Pavlosk Experimental Station.
MRPb TIL there are no vitamins with letters F-J because those letters were used for vitamins that were “reclassified over time, discarded as false leads, or renamed because of their relationship to vitamin B, which became a complex of vitamins.”
GY6A4 TIL the Bee Gees song "Massachusetts" was originally written for The Seekers, but when they couldn't get the song to The Seekers, the Bee Gees recorded it themselves. Their version ended up charting at #1 in 13 countries and became one of the best selling singles in history.
087M TIL Jennifer Love Hewitt doesn’t have even a single film of hers rated fresh on rotten tomatoes.