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• [Games fact 1]  A 25-year-old contestant named Gérald Babin on the French version of Survivor died during the first competition on the first day. A week later, the staff doctor(Thierry Costa) of the show killed himself. His suicide note claimed the media was making unjust accusations and assumptions about him.

  Games, People source

• [Games fact 2]  The 2001 video game Ghost Recon takes place during a fictional 2008 Russian invasion of Georgia. In reality, Russia would actually invade Georgia that year.

  Countries, Games source

• [Games fact 3]  Chess960 is a game created by Bobby Fischer which uses the same board and pieces of regular chess, but randomly shuffles the home row to prevent players from relying on memorized strategies and instead rely on their own creativity.

  Games, People source

• [Games fact 4]  A father made his son work his way to modernity by playing through the history of video games chronologically rather than let him play whatever video game he wanted. The boy started with 1979's Galaxian.

  Games, People source

• [Games fact 5]  A North Carolina man owns the only known recording of Super Bowl I, as CBS and NBC didn’t save it. The NFL countered his $1 million offer for the taping with $30,000, then later refused to buy it at all, yet warned him he’ll face legal action if he sells it to anyone else.

  Corporation, Games, People source

• [Games fact 6]  The computer game Tron actually came out after the movie did and it made more money in arcades than the movie did in theaters.

  Games, Movies source

• [Games fact 7]  The Nintendo character Kirby was named after John Kirby, the legal counsel for Nintendo who helped them win their lawsuit with Universal Studios in 1982. John Kirby was gifted a sailboat Christened the “Donkey Kong” and given exclusive rights to name any boat he owned “Donkey Kong.”

  Games, People source

• [Games fact 8]  The Olympic games used to include gold medals in categories such as architecture, city planning, sculpturing, and statistics. The founder of modern Olympics himself, Pierre de Coubertin, won the gold medal in literature at the 1912 summer Olympics.

  Art, Games source

• [Games fact 9]  The upper limit for Yu-Gi-Oh! decks is 60 cards because someone once entered a tournament with a more than 2000 cards deck and that wasn't illegal at the time.

  Games, People source

• [Games fact 10]  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.

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