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TIL movies for Portal and Half Life have been announced

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8nZ TIL Space Invaders was so popular in Japan it caused a national coin shortage
4X66R TIL Cats were very revered in Ancient Egypt. A mob lynched a Roman for accidentally killing a cat even though the Pharaoh Ptolemy XII tried to dissuade them.
rNLdd TIL there is a grizzly–polar bear hybrid, often called a grolar bear or a pizzly bear, a rare hybrid between a grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) and a polar bear (Ursus maritimus). These hybrids occur when the two species interbreed, typically in regions where their habitats overlap.
Lk7om TIL that in East Germany a used car cost more than the same model cost brand new.
RMk9 TIL there’s a parasite that can “hijack” the brain of invertebrates, amphibians, and mammals