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May 21, 2020

TIL that Katsuya Eguchi, the creator for the game Animal Crossing, drew his inspiration for it from experiences of having to move from where he grew up to moving to Nintendo headquarters and wanted to "recreate the feeling of being alone in a new town, away from friends and family."

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May 08, 2020

TIL if you publish a book in Norway, the government will buy thousands copies (1,550 if a children's book) and distribute them to top libraries throughout the country.

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Apr 22, 2020

TIL: If you gently press the bottom right corner of your eyeball through the eyelid, you see a little dark spot in the top left of your vision. This is because we see the world upside down, but our brain translate it so it looks right side up to us.

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Mar 16, 2020

TIL Agatha Christie's in-depth description of using Thallium to poison people in her novel, The Pale Horse, inspired several people to poison others in real life. In some instances, medical professionals who had read the book recognized the symptoms when others had not.

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Feb 07, 2020

TIL that Herman Melville had difficulty finding a publisher for Moby Dick. In a letter to Melville, one publisher asked "why does it have to be a whale?" and suggested that Captain Ahab struggle with "a depravity towards young, perhaps voluptuous, maidens" instead.

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Feb 01, 2020

TIL Ewa Wisnerska is a professional paraglider who in 2007 was sucked into a storm cloud and survived being 10,000 metres in the air without oxygen and subjected to temperatures of -50 °c. after an hour and falling back down to 6,900 metres she came to and was able to fly her way back down to earth.

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Jan 31, 2020

TIL researchers discovered something dubbed "Cheese Metabolism". People who eat fatty cheese were found to paradoxically have healthier body compositions than those who don't. They theorize a substance in cheese called butyrate increases metabolism which can help people manage their weight better.

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Nov 10, 2019

TIL: During WWII, Meth was an over the counter drug and the German military's heavy use helped the soldiers cover ground the French thought would take them 2 weeks, in 3 days..

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Nov 05, 2019

TIL if you publish a book in Norway, the government will buy 1000 copies (1,500 if a children's book) and distribute them to libraries throughout the country.

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Nov 02, 2019

TIL that the Polish Government in Exile, formed after the Nazi and Soviet invasion in 1939, refused to recognize the Polish People's Republic until fair elections were held. They continued to have a president, PM, and a cabinet that met every week in London until 1990 when democracy was restored

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Sep 26, 2019

TIL That Twix Chocolate Bar’s Name Is Short For ‘Twin Biscuit Sticks’

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Jul 31, 2019

TIL That all of McDonalds’ delivery trucks in the UK, have been running on used cooking oil from their restaurants since 2007.

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Jun 30, 2019

TIL Winston Churchill gets a doctor’s note to drink “unlimited” alcohol in Prohibition America

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Jun 22, 2019

TIL In 2012, the NOAA was forced to publish that Mermaids weren’t real. This was due to a Sci-Fi program on Animal Planet claiming that a Mermaid’s body had been found on a beach. Some believed it and contacted the NOAA, making them state: "No evidence of aquatic humanoids has ever been found,".

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Jun 10, 2019

TIL Half of European men share King Tut's DNA (haplogroup R1b1a2) as opposed to less than 1% of modern Egyptians. Its suggested that the common ancestor lived in the Caucasus about 9,500 years ago.

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Jun 05, 2019

TIL that James Cameron altered just one scene of the night sky when Rose is on the raft because according to Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, the star field Rose sees wasn't accurate for the time and place. Cameron asked him for the correct one and changed it for the Titanic re-release in 2012.

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May 21, 2019

TIL that the job with the highest death rate in the USA is the position of President at 18%.

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May 01, 2019

TIL about the powers of Queen Elizabeth II, that she can fire the whole Australian government, has her own personal poet, can drive without a license, owns every Dolphin in British waters

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Apr 03, 2019

TIL In 2008, a British man was arrested for drug possession in Dubai after 0.003 grams of marijuana were detected in his shoe.

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Mar 30, 2019

TIL that Paul McCartney once ordered a pizza to be flown from New York to London. It was delivered by Concorde.

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