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TIL at the end of the Top Gear US Special after arriving in New Orleans, the hosts gave their cars away instead of selling them as originally planned after seeing the damage from Hurricane Katrina

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mxKGp TIL Galaga (1981) had a predecessor: Galaxian (1979), which was the first popular video game to use RGB color graphics.
R7mmw TIL The 3 Stooges shot a pilot called Jerks of All Trades in 1949 intended as a weekly sitcom where the Stooges would try a different job/business every week. Columbia Pictures claiming the TV series would compete with their two-reels threatened to cancel their contract so the show was abandoned.
R5o6j TIL: There is a scientific study involving 2537 men and 3185 women which tested correlation between number of partners and most chronic illnesses. Cancer was the only one statistically significant. 10+ partners means you are more likely to get cancer and had having 0-1 has the least.
nWxY9 TIL about Samuel Bayer, who was the videographer for some of the most famous music videos. Some of his works include Smells Like Teen Spirit, American Idiot, Welcome to the Black Parade, Payphone, and so many more
PkRO TIL an engineer for the US Navy was trying to design a new anti-sub device for 5 years and finally succeeded after 10 minutes on LSD