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TIL that Namco holds a patent which allows only them to make mini-games in loading screens.The patent will expire later this year.

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woPp7 TIL the NCAA didn't recognize women's college sports until 1982 and still doesn't recognize records set or championships won under the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women, which organized US women's college athletics from 1971-1982
X04l6 TIL the map of a Fly Brain closely matched the architecture used in current AI models
9ZO6 TIL that in medical dramas, about 66% of patients who are administered CPR survive long enough to be discharged from the hospital. In reality, depending on the circumstances CPR has a success rate between 2% and 18%.
GAvZG TIL that news anchors in Turkmenistan, both men and women, were prevented from wearing any make-up after the former president discovered he was unable to tell the difference between them when presenters wore it.
OGZ54 TIL about an ancient African tradition where a murderer was punished by an assassin running into him with a spear which had meat on it. The murderer kept his mouth open. The murder victim's family decides if the murderer is killed by the spear or fed the meat (forgiven)