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TIL in 2009, Germans bought more copies of “Farming Simulator” than of GTA4.

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M7OV0 TIL that US tick populations have exploded in the past 15 years, causing a surge in often misdiagnosed tick-borne diseases. One expert said, "If people could see what I'm seeing, they would never go outside."
kKVB TIL that Portobello, Cremini, and Button (White) mushrooms are all different stages of maturity for the same mushroom.
e0NN5 TIL early on in the Space Shuttle program, flights had a 1 in 9 chance of ending in a catastrophic failure based on recent risk analysis
nWmN7 TIL National Geographic editor Bill Garrett was fired from the magazine in 1990 because he wanted to publish more controversial features that raised production costs and stories about AIDS, Exxon Valdez oil spill were published under his direction
QNKBe TIL there were sailor cats, which traveled aboard ships with the task of eliminating rodents.