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

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9wyRB TIL that the world's first solar power plant was built in Maadi, Egypt in 1913 by American engineer Frank Shuman
16aQP TIL CIA satellites in the 1960s would jettison heat-shielded film canisters with parachutes back to earth, to be retrieved in mid-air by plane
m1vKP TIL Foot binding, the practice of breaking and tightly binding the feet of young girls in order to change their shape and size, was still prevalent in China until the early 20th century.
VMbRQ TIL Wilt Chamberlain's record setting 100-point game on March 2, 1962 was not televised (and no video exists of it as a result); only two different audio recordings from a radio telecast made by two different people (which were combined by historians) survives today of that game
5YBpr TIL European colonization of Americas killed so many it cooled Earth’s climate