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TIL: Most Thermostat Controls in Large Office Buildings Don’t Do Anything

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ZRbp TIL that the premise for the game GTA was stumbled upon by testers through a glitch during the creation of a game called Race'n'Chase. The glitch opened up the linear gameplay of Race'n'Chase to an open world with “non-stop crashing”. Developers abandoned Race'n'Chase and turned it into GTA.
0dQkL TIL: Brandolini's law aka the Bullshit asymmetry principle: "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it."
69v98 TIL that Kalmykia, a republic in Russia, is the only region in Europe where Buddhism is the predominant religion
mxZXR TIL that Otto von Bismarck challenged a scientist to a duel, but backed out after learning that his opponent choose to fight with two pork sausages, one infected with roundworm.
5VBLr TIL that Uranium is the heaviest element in nature.