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TIL Sid Meier wasn’t bothered about online play in the first Civilization game, saying “if you had friends, you wouldn’t need to play computer games”.

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NedM TIL when Little Nell, who played Columbia in Rocky Horror, was 18, she worked as a shoe salesperson in London, alongside a young Freddy Mercury.
5YlnD TIL: In 1209, a student of Oxford University apparently killed a woman and fled. In retaliation, the townspeople hanged three students. The school suspended operations and the faculty all feared the mob. Many of the facility then moved to Cambridge and founded a new university there.
17JP TIL that a man was injected with Plutonium without his knowledge or consent and survived for 20 years, eventually surviving the highest radiation dose known for any human
PY6bg TIL Swedes have a national weekly eating plan. Thursdays are traditionally pancakes and split pea soup.
YpvBv TIL that the term for the last animal of an entire species is Endling. When an Endling dies, the species is considered extinct.