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TIL that the Sega Genesis (Mega Drive) still sells so well in Brazil that a company is making new consoles for the market.

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GYdVj TIL Charles Darwin was the first person known to put wheels on an office chair. He liked being able to roll round his office so he could study different specimens more quickly.
bKw0 TIL an Oregon woman started a 50,000 acre wildfire who later told authorities that her “firefighter friends were bored and needed work.”
b66rj TIL that Johnny Appleseed planted apples for manufacturing booze and selling land to pioneers, not to help spread fruit across the land.
PvQO TIL I learned that Bob Marley once said “The people who are trying to make this world worse aren’t taking a day off. How can I?” after armed gunmen attacked his home two days before giving a free concert called “Smile Jamaica”
XE9Dr TIL that Carfentanyl (think "normal" Fentanyl but on crack) is so potent that it can be used as a chemical weapon. It was most likely used during the 2002 Moscow theater hostage crisis as an aerosol mist to subdue the Chechen hostage takers.