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9Y7QD TIL Humans are better at endurance running than any other animal on the planet
6oEQ TIL that the “SEGA” chant at the beginning of Sonic the Hedgehog took up 1/8th of the memory on the cartridge.
VBE4m TIL that mathematician Mike Keith wrote a 10,000-word book (consisting of short stories, poetry, puzzles) in which the number of letters in successive words encodes the first 10,000 digits of pi.
6J5l TIL in 1983, a struggling Atari dumped tons of unsold, unsalable inventory into a pit in Alamogordo, New Mexico. This was considered an urban legend until 30 years later, when they were unearthed by an excavation crew. The haul included E.T., Atari catalogs, and Raiders of the Lost Ark promotionals.
ADEy7 TIL of Erwin Kreuz, a German tourist who planned to visit San Francisco but accidentally disembarked early, and then spent days looking for the Golden Gate Bridge and other Bay Area landmarks in Bangor, Maine. Amused and touched, Maine residents turned him into a local celebrity.