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TIL The PlayStation 2 is the best selling home console to date selling over 155 million units

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Y7g5d TIL until 2020 there were only two factories producing the lacquer (acetate) discs used as masters to produce vinyl records... and then one of them burned down, leaving only a factory in Japan producing all masters in the world.
KYWmG TIL that after a drunken fracas on a flight to Sydney in 1968, The Who were forced to leave Australia and subsequently received a telegram from the then Prime Minister to never return. They would not return until 2004.
4Rg6 TIL China killed at least 800,000 of its own citizens when it purposefully opened dikes to flood the Yellow River.
0d4by TIL from 1965 to 1998, the most popular way Gatorade was packaged was in glass bottles. After this, plastic bottles became the most popular form of packaging due to safety reasons (no glass shattering), being more lightweight, cheaper, and was seen as more environmentally friendly due to recycling.
Mxk0 TIL that in “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure” Rufus never tells them his name. They learn his name from their future selves, who mention it when they come back to visit their past selves at the Circle K.