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TIL that Microsoft paid Rockstar Games 75 million dollars to make GTA IV a non-PS3 exclusive and bring the game on Xbox 360

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6JVJ TIL The first ever Windows Computer Virus was created by two Pakistani Brothers to fight against software piracy. The virus destroyed memory, slowed the hard drive and hid a short copyright message in the boot sector.
Lk4OQ TIL even after everything The Beatles accomplished and releasing 12 albums, George Harrison was only 26-years-old when the band split in early 1970
NekQ TIL that in 1981, 19-year old Jeff Dalley died of a massive heart attack after achieving a high score in the Atari game Berzerk.
ZRwY TIL that a British zoo banned monkeys from eating bananas for health reasons
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