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TIL that owning the Sims base game and every Stuff Pack, Game Pack, and Expansion Pack costs over $785

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m1JlY TIL that the India–Pakistan border is distinctly visible from outer space due to the numerous floodlights installed by India to facilitate its monitoring.
KJ46 TIL despite its reputation, the black widow spider’s bite very rarely kills humans and has accounted for 0 deaths despite nearly 2,000 bites annually.
d8nn9 TIL: In parts of the Caucasus Mountains highlands, some 1,000-year-old stone tower-fort homes built by the isolated Svan warriors are still being lived in. "The turbulent history of the region ensured that these fortifications remained in use long after similar defenses become redundant elsewhere."
DDpj TIL eight of the July 20th, 1944 conspirators to assassinate Hitler were punished so severely, that they were slowly strangled with piano wire and revived multiple times only to be killed again. And all of this was filmed for Hitler to personally view at his leisure.
jNY0R TIL John Walker created the match by accident in 1826. He was scraping a mixture of dried chemicals off of a stick in his hearth and it caught fire. Against the advice of friends he did not patent his idea, leading to others greatly profiting off of his invention