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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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v1yYr TIL that a Scottish parliamentarian introduced a bill to decriminalize homosexuality in England after his gay brother killed himself. It passed. He wrote another bill to protect badgers. It failed. When asked why the latter didn’t pass, he snorted “There are not many badgers in the House of Lords.”
Z8Ev TIL: Ancient Spartans bathed baby boys in red wine, an experience so traumatic that many babies died from the stress and pain.
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