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TIL an accountant from Canada created a full-length role-playing game using an Excel workbook.

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GYP0Q TIL the Yersinia pestis bacteria is responsible for 3 plague pandemics in history. This included the Plague of Justinian in the 6th century, the Black Death in the 14th century, and the Third Pandemic in the 19th and 20th century.
yVdNl TIL about Nicaraguan Sign Language. A form of sign language which developed spontaneously among deaf school children in Nicaragua in the 1980's. It is not based on any other existing language and is considered by linguists to be an entirely new language.
dGOK TIL that there are actually eight words in the English language that contain all five vowels in order (a-e-i-o-u): abstemious, facetious, arsenious, abstentious, acheilous, anemious, caesious, and annelidous.
VBOvp TIL while people often use the words ‘sign’ and ‘symptom’ interchangeably, from a Medical perspective a Symptom is something only the sufferer can perceive, like dizziness or pain while a Sign is something objective that a another person can perceive, like a visible rash or elevated temperature.
M7MGW TIL: "Popcorn" is not simply a descriptive term, but also refers to a specific variety of corn which has the unique characteristic of being able to pop, while the other five varieties of corn do not have this capability.