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TIL: WASD became a standard movement scheme in games due to it being used by a quake player named Dennis "Thresh" Fong

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YXad TIL post office workers once sent a live cat through the pneumatic mail tube system in New York.
N7JAb TIL not only can you buy an "official" ocarina based on the game LoZ Ocarina of Time, there are now several variations and many more ocarina companies thriving because of that one game's famous ocarina. They all play and most are inexpensive.
Oo9p4 TIL of Joe Ekins, a Sherman Firefly gunner, who had never fired his gun in combat before, destroyed 3 Tiger tanks in 12 minutes.
BryeW TIL Terry Pratchet was a huge Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion fan, and based his Discworld book "Snuff" on his dungeon crawling adventures. Additionally, he collaborated with modders in the midst of his battle with Alzheimers. Link is a very interesting article that goes into detail about it all.
w6ZJ TIL that Charles Darwin didn’t refer to evolution (“evolve”) in his book, “Origin of Species”, until the very last sentence so that potentially outraged Christians would either lose interest and stop reading before finding it, or be forced to read the evidence first.