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• [Games fact 1] A video game named “Earthbound” has several anti-piracy measures in place; including crashing and deleting your entire save data during the final boss fight if you’re using a pirated copy of the game.

  Games, Technologysource

• [Games fact 2] Ernő-Rubik, the inventor of the Rubik's Cube didn't realize he'd built a puzzle until he scrambled it the first time and tried to restore it.

  Games, Peoplesource

• [Games fact 3] Alan Shepard pulled out a makeshift six-iron he smuggled on board Apollo 14 and hit two golf balls on the lunar surface, becoming the first and only person to play golf anywhere other than Earth.

  Games, People, Sportssource

• [Games fact 4] Video Game Company Midway paid boxing announcer Michael Buffer $100 million to license in perpetuity his trademark phrase "Let's Get Ready to Rumble" for the video game “Ready To Rumble”.

  Finance, Gamessource

• [Games fact 5] In Sid Meier's Civilisation, an underflow glitch caused Gandhi to become a nuclear-obsessed warlord

  Games, People, Weaponssource

• [Games fact 6] The Bungie Studios team consumed more than 20,000 pounds of pizza, 24,000 gallons of soda and more than a half ton of bananas during the three years it took to develop “Halo 3.”

  Food, Gamessource

• [Games fact 7] Nintendo 64 software rarely took advantage of 64-bit data precision operations. N64 game-titles generally used faster (and more compact) 32-bit data-operations. 32-bit code executed faster and required less storage space (which was at a premium on the N64's cartridges).

  Games, Technologysource

• [Games fact 8] The Olympic flag's colors are always red, black, blue, green, and yellow rings on a field of white. This is because at least one of those colors appears on the flag of every nation on the planet.

  Flags, Gamessource

• [Games fact 9] On the Thai version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?", a contestant's screen (Lertlak Panchanawaporn) was fed the presenter's information, with every correct answer. The contestant won the million, however it was later revoked and she was able to play again, winning only 25,000 baht. (approx. US$800) 

  Games, Peoplesource

• [Games fact 10] Back in 2010, a man named Jon McLoone ran 15 million computer simulations of the game Hangman and found out that the most difficult word for that program to guess is "Jazz."

  Games, Miscsource

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