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TIL that Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall, a game released in 1996, had a map size of 161,600 km². That makes almost the size of Florida which has an area of 170,300 km².

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xgKg TIL Elton John’s husband David Furnish was recently caught having a threesome in a paddling pool full in olive oil. This fact has been banned from being broadcast in England and Wales, and news outlets are, right now, being threatened to remove all traces of the story.
loPQG TIL of "Arsenic Eaters" - a group of Austrians who ingested doses far beyond the lethal dose of arsenic trioxide without any apparent harm. They used to eat up small doses initially and gradually built up to 300-400mg as a mithridate to help enable strenuous work at high altitudes in the Alps
W7r14 TIL about Dr.Yusuf Hamied, a billionaire and chairman of Cipla Pharma, who is known as "Robin Hood", while Big Pharma calls him a "Pirate". He stood up to the big pharma and manufactured generic AIDS drugs bringing down the cost from $12,000 per year to $350 per year, thus saving millions of lives
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oBppL TIL that when Apple released the LaserWriter printer in 1985 it had a built-in programming language, its own RAM and used the same CPU as the original Macintosh, but running at a higher speed. Because of this, the LaserWriter printer had the most processing power in Apple's product line at that time