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TIL The Sims was originally designed as an architecture simulator, with sims only there to evaluate builds

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En5w TIL that in the first Pokémon games you were supposed to fight Professor Oak at some point, but the fight was removed from the final game.
AOag TIL that the company BlackRock has $3.67 trillion in assets under management. “If [it] were a country, then its assets […] would put it at the fourth largest in terms of gross domestic product, higher than Germany or France”.
p8RXG TIL Walt Disney was so fixed on having semi-retired actress Jane Darwell appear in Mary Poppins as the bird woman that he personally drove to her retirement home to ask her after she originally refused
j6y0M TIL there is a semi-secret club in the United States for male aviators. Founded in 1919 it now has 277 "hangers" across the country. Notable members include Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, Charles Lindbergh, helicopter designer Igor Sikorsky, WW II Raider Jimmy Doolittle and WW I ace Eddie Rickenbacker.
dZ99 TIL That Mr. Rogers named the puppet “King Friday XIII” so that children would not be superstitious of friday the 13th, but instead look forward to it. That’s why they celebrate King Friday’s birthday every friday the 13th.