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TIL that Dead Space originally started as System Shock 3

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ADVXg TIL that seemingly pointless zigzags on the roads in the Western US are there to compensate the road grid for the curvature of Earth.
R5r16 TIL Svalbard, Norway is the only visa-free zone in the world. Regardless of citizenship, anyone can live and work there indefinitely.
R77G7 And is it already too late?!
kJav4 TIL It takes more than 4 million average-sized farts a year to generate enough biogas to power a large-sized home.
YpNJd TIL about the "London Necropolis Railway", a railway line opened in 1854 just to carry corpses (and mourners) to a cemetery (at the time the largest in the world) 37km away from the city. There were even two stations in the cemetery, one for the Anglicans and one for non-Anglicans.