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TIL "RE Engine", a game engine developed originally for Resident Evil 7, does not stand for "Resident Evil Engine" but actually stands for "REach for the moon Engine."

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788ZP TIL Millie Bobby Brown (Stranger Things) is Deaf in One Ear
VBEPD TIL Cooperative breeding (communal raising of the young) in animals is directly linked to a greater chance of altruism (helping someone for no reward).
ADl5g TIL in 2008, George Garratt from Glastonbury, UK, legally changed his name to "Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine Hulk And The Flash Combined." Apparently his grandmother has not spoken to him since the change.
R7xQ8 TIL River and Joaquin Phoenix spent a significant portion of their childhood in a sex cult known as Children of God and later, The Family International.
69deX TIL about the origins of the expression “the toolies” (the Aussie version is NSFW)