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TIL Loneliness has the same effect on mortality as smoking 15 cigarettes a day

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gMEA8 TIL that Final Fantasy VII was originally planned for the Nintendo 64, but its cartridge-based system couldn't handle what they wanted the game to do and Nintendo refused to listen to Square Enix' advice of using CD-ROMs, so they jumped ship to the then in development Sony Playstation
1ak9r TIL Folding 1000 paper cranes was a requirement for Japan's Astronaut Program.
grAPD TIL in 1964, Japan awarded the First‐Class Order of Merit of the Grand Cordon of the Rising Sun, one of its highest decorations, to Curtis LeMay, the General who had directed the fire bombing of Japan's cities which caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.
0wVN5 TIL about the the transmitter for WLW radio outside Cincinnati, until the output was reduced in 1939 from 500,000 watts, would cause lights to not turn off until WLW engineers rewired houses, a nearby hotel sign never went dark and farmers reported hearing WLW through their barbed-wire fences.
MePx0 TIL this 2 ton acrylic slab was going to be the monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey, but Kubrick rejected it and went with the iconic black design instead.