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TIL Fiancé refers to a Male & Fiancée refers to a female

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gr647 TIL about the Vectrex, a video game console released in November 1982 in North America that came with its own 9 inch monochrome CRT monitor, detachable wired controller, had vector-based graphics, and games for it came with translucent colorful overlays for the screen. The initial price was $199.
Z8YoQ TIL when "Batman" TV show of the 60s was canceled by ABC after 3 seasons, it was on the verge of being rescued by NBC for a fourth season but it was discovered that the sets of the TV show were already destroyed. NBC rescinded the offer not wanting to spend hundreds of thousands building the set.
691m8 TIL that hand and arm transplants are a thing in lieu of prosthetics
jNB4v TIL that hens store semen in storage tubules and can periodically release portions of it over the course of a month to produce numerous fertile eggs. If they happen to mate with a male they don't like, they can simply expel the entire sample and produce infertile eggs.
QJbk9 TIL a Neural Network (AI) for converting satellite images to street maps learned to "cheat" by subtly encoding the original image in the output.