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TIL movies for Portal and Half Life have been announced

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mE0o TIL that when the inventor of Doritos died, friends and family tossed Doritos in his grave.
xVapk TIL Bald Eagles sound like seagulls. The sound they’re often presented making is actually from a hawk.
Ye4Z TIL A 3500 year old Egyptian temple dedicated to Montu - God of strength and war - was disassembled in the 19th century to build a sugar factory
N6bN TIL the element cobalt is named after a German sprite called a kobold, which was blamed for polluting mines. Kobolds are also the basis for a race of creatures in Dungeons & Dragons that live in mines and pollute the ore.
mnOO TIL the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), much like the FBI, has its own list of most wanted fugitives.