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TIL that after the price of Sega Saturn was revealed to be $399, Steve Race (Sony Computer Entertainment America President) took the stage at E3 1995 and only said 3 numbers in his keynote speech : $299 and walked off. The crowd erupted.

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WkV5X TIL that upon return from the moon, the Apollo 11 astronauts had to go through US Customs. They declared rocks, dust, and other lunar samples.
v1V1B TIL In 1998 Karl Bushby set out to become the first person to walk an unbroken path around the world, starting from Chile and finishing in the UK. He is currently in Kazakhstan.
p8X7Q Today I learned that God used to have an equally divine wife, Asherah before the advent of fully monotheistic Judaism.
X019P TIL of the Schön scandal, concerning physicist Jan Hendrik Schön, who rose to prominence after a series of breakthroughs with semiconductors that made him in contention for the Nobel prize. It was later discovered that all his research was completely fraudulent.
mxPXM TIL H1N1 virus (swine flu) continues to circulate as a seasonal flu virus, and cause illness, hospitalization, and deaths worldwide every year.