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TIL that SNES cartridges sometimes contained a coprocessor to help perform complex calculations that the built-in CPU couldn’t handle, the earliest being the SuperFX inside Star Fox

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QNae TIL Liam Neeson often gets mistaken for Ralph Fiennes, and has even signed autographs in Fiennes’ name
VMRBG TIL that Robert E. Lee greduated second in his class from the United States Military Academy. More impressive however, is that he recived no demerts his entire time there. To this day, that has never been matched.
njG TIL Charles Barkley was about to run for Governor of Alabama as a Republican until “they lost their minds.”
D1O1p TIL baby otters can’t swim when they are born. It can take baby otters months to learn how to swim depending on their species. Sea otter moms need to carry babies on their belly or place them in kelp beds until they learn how to swim properly on their own.
KRP6 TIL that the songs of blue whales have been becoming progressively deeper each year. There is no explanation for this mysterious voice change.