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TIL that The Expanse novels was originally a concept for an MMORPG and tabletop game that Ty Franck, one of the Co-Authors of the Novels, was creating. Daniel Abraham, impressed by how much depth was put in the game, sugessted he turn it into a novel

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epQKn TIL a 60cm Humboldt penguin escaped from Tokyo Sea Life Park by jumping over a rock wall twice its height before slipping through a gap in the fence that surrounded the park. Despite 30 confirmed sightings, the penguin eluded capture for 82 days before eventually being picked up near a river.
a81ko TIL that according to PER, the basketball analysis statistic that attempts to incorporate all aspects of a player's game, the best NBA player of all time is Nikola Jokić
XEpYr TIL the most popular Atari 2600 game -- Yars' Revenge -- and the least popular -- E.T. the Extra Terrestrial -- were made by the same guy: Howard Scott Warshaw.
OoKV6 TIL of Vedem, a Czech-language magazine produced in 1942 by boys aged 13-16 imprisoned at the Terezín concentration camp. The magazine featured things like poems, drawings, essays, and reviews, and was manually copied and distributed around. Around 800 original Vedem pages survived the war.
a8gAJ TIL that in 2011 a man in Egpyt named his daughter Facebook. He chose the name to "to express his joy at the achievements made by the January 25 youth," who organized protests with social media, starting that day, which led to the ouster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, after 30 years in power.