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TIL In 2004 Sega released the extremely well received NFL 2K5 for $19.99, beating EA’s Madden 2005 to the market by 3 weeks and at less than half the price. The success of 2K5 prompted EA to buy the exclusive right to make NFL video games which insured Madden would be the only console-based NFL game

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gMvEL TIL Even though they fought with the North, the State of Minnesota still displays, in their Capitol, a Confederate Battle Flag that they stole from a Virginia unit at the Battle of Gettysburg. Virginia has been asking for it back for over 100 years. Minnesota continues to say no.
8aLvP TIL Jimmy Neutron never got cancelled. DNA Productions decided to make The Ant Bully, which did so poor in the box office it actually sent the whole company under in 2006.
1awmr TIL Frank Sinatra’s son was kidnapped in 1963 and Sinatra ended up paying $240,000 (about $2,000,000 adjusted for inflation) in ransom before his son was safely returned.
VoW0 TIL that women working in watchmaking factories in the early 1900’s received deadly doses of radiation from licking the paintbrushes they used to paint Glow-in-the-dark details on said watches.
WkmZo TIL Avocado Toast is not a new dish but has been consumed in San Francisco for 135 years.