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TIL that Miitopia, a game for the 3DS, is the first and currently only Nintendo developed game to receive an adult rating, as in Russia, any game showing same sex relationships in a positive light gets an automatic 18+ rating, despite everything else in Miitopia being child friendly

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rNmRe TIL In 1983, Air Force One (with Reagan aboard) landed six minutes before a microburst slammed into the ground at Andrews Air Force Base, causing wind speeds to hit 149 mph. At the time, that was the fastest wind speed ever measured by an anemometer.
e1M4 TIL a half-jewish man was used in Nazi recruitment posters and dubbed “the ideal German soldier”, before being kicked out for being too Jewish.
LkYy9 TIL about the Bard Prison Initiative, a program providing college education to inmates across various prisons in NY. Nationally, ~80% of inmates will return to prison within 9 years of release. BPI graduates have a recidivism rate of only 4%.
ANgOa TIL that two different women with no known connections attempted to assassinate then-president Gerald Ford within 17 days of one another in 1975.
kYW7 TIL That only one victim of the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, Frank Gusenberg, was still alive when police arrived on the scene. When questioned by the police about the shooting, despite reportedly having fourteen bullets in his body, his only response was “nobody shot me”.