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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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edEE TIL that Chuck Norris was an outspoken supporter of the Prop 8 ban on same-sex marriage in California
x6eK1 TIL that during the Edo period in Japan Catholicism was outlawed and groups of Japanese catholics had secret rooms in their houses and they made statues of the Virgin Mary and other saints that would look like Buddhist statues
v7g4 TIL a recalled obesity drug, fenfluramine, had a remarkable effect on a boy with autism. Before taking fenfluramine, Joshua’s I.Q. was so low it could not be measured. After, he was able to read and do maths at a 4th grade level.
nBZG TIL that Jimmy Diresta shot and produced an instructional DVD for Nick Offerman in 2008. Offerman paid him with a canoe.
KYAa6 TIL about the 1983 Brink’s-Mat robbery, the largest gold heist in British history. Robbers stole 3 tons of gold, valued today at ~£100M (then £26M). Much of the gold was never recovered and it is thought the rest made its way back into the legitimate market. Only two of the six robbers were jailed.