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7pJb TIL Will Wright, designer of SimCity 2000, said that the game does not actually reticulate splines when generating terrain, and he just inserted the phrase because it “sounded cool.”
EEvV TIL the National Radio Quiet Zone is a 13,000-square-mile area in West Virginia & Virginia, where Cell Phone service, Wi-Fi, and almost every radio station are BANNED
dDMgZ TIL that humanity has a 95% probability of going extinct by the year 10,000 AD according to Brandon Carter's formulationof the controversial Doomsday argument, which argues that half of the humans who will ever have lived have probably already been born.
9YxxG TIL an IT Director, fed up with sales calls where the caller lied to reach IT staff, said to transfer one such caller 'straight to hell' . This led to the creation of a special extension for such calls where horrible hold music and faked queue messages play on an endless loop to increase hold time.
6ENkm TIL Irish monks invented spacing between written words.