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TIL the 1999 Sega Dreamcast game Shenmue strived for accuracy to the point of replicating the weather in Yokosuka, Japan in 1987

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VMLnQ TIL When a poacher’s snare killed one of their own, two young gorillas teamed up to find and dismantle traps in their Rwandan forest home. They saw what they had to do, they did it then moved to dismantle next trap.
J1gZ4 TIL: The world's tallest cut Christmas tree was a 67.36 m (221 ft) Douglas fir, which was erected and decorated at Northgate Shopping Center, Seattle, Washington in December 1950.
vAAB TIL that the first native american to meet the Pilgrims walked into the Plymouth settlement and welcomed them in English and asked them for a beer.
rR5Wy TIL that the Bone Wars were a period in which two paleontologists, Othniel Marsh and Edward Cope, searched for dinosaur fossils competitively, to the point of bribery, theft and destroying bones to keep them away from each other. They discovered over 130 species, but both were financially ruined.
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