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May 22, 2020

TIL that a bug in the original civilization game caused Mahatma Gandhi to become an aggressive jerk that demanded lots of money and declared nuclear war. This glitch later became a deliberate part of his personality in later games.

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May 10, 2020

TIL that Nintendo can trace its origins back to the time of the Ottoman Empire and even ran brothels to supplement their trading card business.

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Jan 24, 2020

TIL that a Japanese TV show apparently hired 3 experts in fluid mechanics, engineering, and dentistry to determine the best way to hold a burger. After 4 months of research, they concluded that your pinkie and thumb should be on the bottom, while the remaining fingers should be on top of the burger.

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Dec 23, 2019

TIL a group gamers sent a port of Super Mario Brothers 3 to Nintendo in hopes of securing a license. Impressed, but uninterested, Nintendo declined but the gamers were so impressed by their work they went on to create their own studio, id Software, which developed Wolfenstein, Quake, and Doom.

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Jul 26, 2019

TIL Pizza Hut restaurants in China stopped offering one trip salad bars- due to customer's creating elaborately engineered "salad towers" carefully balanced on one plate.

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Jul 18, 2019

TIL in a review/comparison for the video games "Infamous" and "Prototype", Yahtzee Croshaw of Zero Punctuation ruled a tie for quality and jokingly said that a tiebreaker would involve the developers dressing up the competing game's protagonist in drag. Both development teams complied.

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May 19, 2019

TIL that using the red cross as a symbol of health in a video game or any other commercial product technically constitutes a violation of the Geneva conventions.

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Apr 22, 2019

TIL that every single copy of GoldenEye 007 for the N64 shipped with a fully functioning ZX Spectrum emulator, along with ten games, hidden on the cartridge. This function can be reenabled using an emulator, letting users play the classic games.

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