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TIL that in 2007 journalist Jeff Gerstmann was fired for a giving a negative video game review

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GYX7J TIL in 1935 a USMC General and Medal of Honor recipient wrote a bestselling book describing how wars exist to enrich corporations.
kwKW TIL Sony makes more than half its revenue on life insurance and banking services in Japan
QeEa TIL Rapper Akon has brought solar electricity to over 1 million Africans, and counting
0YW1 TIL a couple people in Bath, UK opened a very short toll road connecting Bath and Bristol around a year ago. The toll road, which did not get a permit to be built, bypassed a short section of a main road that had a 14 mile long detour. They built the road in only 10 days.
R7Dea TIL my hometown of Sandusky, Ohio, has made Election Day a holiday, swappint out Columbus Day. (via NPR)