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TIL the director of GoldenEye 007 (the game) discovered an issue with the N64's hardware, prior to the console's launch. Silicon Graphics, makers of the N64 chipset, considered doing a revision with a fix, but ultimately decided not to, due to costs and the possibility of that causing another delay

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XEA4P TIL that the Christmas Number One Single in the UK in 2009 was Rage Against the Machine's - Killing In The Name due to a campaign launched to protest against Simon Cowell and The X Factor.
woOy7 TIL Synesthesia: Mystery of God’s Creation
loLl7 TIL Hawaii's is the only state in the US that still have McDonald's deep fried apple pie. McDonald's Hawaii outsell their mainland counterparts in Apple Pies and they also have taro pie and haupia (coconut) pie.
4XZ9g TIL in 1983 there was a Coneheads animated series pilot voiced by the original actors, animated by Rankin/Bass (Hobbit,Thundercats)
Qg96 TIL that Arnold Sommerfield, a theoretical physicist, was doctoral supervisor to 4 physicists who went on to win Nobel Prizes in physics, and academic supervisor to 2 others who also won. He himself was nominated 81 times.