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TIL Nintendo sold more Nintendo Switch consoles in its first year than Wii U consoles in its entire lifetime.

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kJ1LB TIL that the "all persons are fictitious" disclaimer on most Hollywood movies is a response to a 1933 lawsuit over a film about the 1916 assassination of Rasputin. The wife of one of the people involved with the plot successfully sued MGM for invasion of privacy and libel.
WAaY TIL light in itself isn’t special, it’s just that according to Einstein, the fastest speed reachable in the universe is 300K m/s. It just happens that light is the only thing we detected that travels without limitations in vacuum, which is why we associate the speed limit of the universe with it.
4XgKo TIL: In 2016, Facebook livestreamed a murder in Chicago but later refused to take the video down "because it doesn't violate the company's community standards".
P1MkZ TIL A lesbian rule was historically a flexible rule used to measure or reproduce irregular curves.
VpOp TIL that Detroit had 2,123 instances of violent crime per 100,000 residents in 2013 and remains America’s most dangerous city