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TIL the Sega Master System (originally released in 1985) is still widely produced and sold in Brazil, largely due to import duties on foreign electronics, wide affordability across all income brackets, and strong nostalgia for many Brazilians who view it as their childhood console

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TIL the Sega Master System (originally released in 1985) is still widely produced and sold in Brazil, largely due to import duties on foreign electronics, wide affordability across all income brackets, and strong nostalgia for many Brazilians who view it as their childhood console

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TIL Kraft Foods paid for a research study at Rutgers University to confirm that Velveeta cheese had nutritional benefits, and soon after, the American Medical Association gave Velveeta its stamp of approval, citing that the product had all the necessary nutritional value to build “firm flesh.”

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TIL that for about four months, the most valuable sports card in history was a Mike Trout rookie card, sold for $3.9M in 2020. Prior to that sale, Honus Wagner’s iconic T206 had been considered the most valuable card since at least 1933. The record is now held by a 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle ($12.6M).

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TIL about the Volkssturm, Nazi Germany’s last-ditch army that conscripted men 16-60 who weren’t already serving. As the situation got desperate in 1944-45, women and disabled WWI veterans were conscripted, armed with outdated and improvised weaponry, uniformed in just an armband and sent to Berlin.

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