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TIL Nearly 37% of purchased Steam games are never played.

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4kJQR TIL in 1994, a paper was published in a medical journal presenting a method to calculate the area under a curve, using rectangles and triangles, called "Tai's model". The researcher was unaware this method has been known for 2400 years and exact methods using calculus for 400 years
YLDG TIL the original Super Mario Bros 2 game was too hard and unpopular overseas, so Nintendo redeveloped an existing Japanese game (Dream Factory: Heart-Pounding Panic) and turned it into what we know as Super Mario Bros 2, hence the weird, new characters and game play.
Rm79 TIL anticholinergic drugs like Benadryl have recently been linked to the development of dementia, short-term memory loss, and confusion through long term, daily use.
GAGOJ TIL that the white specks in a Thomas English Muffin are farina.
N7dE TIL that in 1979 an LA man received thousands of parking tickets due to DMV computers matching tickets for cars without plates to his custom “NO PLATE” license plate.