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TIL the inspiration for Sonic the Hedgehog came from an unlikely mix of Michael Jackson, Santa Claus and Bill Clinton

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E1rnd TIL bout Emma Haruka Iwao, a Japanese computer scientist who this year broke the record of most digits of Pi calculated, at 31.4 trillion.
grKj4 TIL that an inscription on Maya hieroglyphs details a battle between Dos Pilas and Tikal which reads “Nahb’aj ch’ich’ witzaj jo” or “The blood pooled, the heads piled up”. Dos Pilas a much smaller nation inflicted a shocking defeat upon the Tikal which helped consolidate their nation is Mesoamerica
1aGmD TIL of the Atacama Desert in South America, the driest nonpolar place in the world. Some weather stations there have never received rain and evidence suggests that the Atacama may not have had any significant rainfall from 1570 to 1971.
Wk76N TIL that fraternal twins can have different fathers
PYmQE TIL that in WWII the US was going to use Bat Bombs on Japan to burn down houses and forests.