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TIL Microsoft had planned to host multiplayer for Xbox and PC games on the same Microsoft LIVE network. Plans were cancelled after play-testing showed that PC players won virtually every match versus console opponents.

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GY8mG TIL the NFL requires every team to be owned by one owner or a small group, one of which must hold 1/3+ of the shares. The Packers are the only exception, community owned disallowing any single owner to own more than 200,000 shares.
MpLB TIL Pandora (internet radio) didn’t pay its 50 employees at all for two years from 2002-2004
logXG TIL the San Marino football team has only won one match in its entire history, and has scored 24 goals in 164 matches.
Kb4w TIL that after seeing one of the last episodes of “Breaking Bad,” George R. R. Martin (author of the books on which “Game of Thrones” is based) tweeted that Walter White was more evil than any character he has created… and that he would need to do something about that.
7gwM TIL that the Los Angeles Police Department changed the rank of “inspector” to be called “commander” because “senior officers voiced a preference for the more military-sounding rank”