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TIL That there are some really creepy urban legends in the video game world.

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Bg48b TIL that when IBM tasked Bill Gates with the creation of a OS for their computer Gates didn't have one nor he knew how to make one, so he bought one (DOS) from a local company for $75k, hired an engineer to adapt it to IBM machines and sold it for millions to IBM without ever writing a line of code.
8VMZ TIL there is a town in Botswana called Kanye. It it divided into two parliamentary constituencies, Kanye North and Kanye South.
VOwG TIL a blue whale’s mouth cavity is so vast it can engulf a volume of water equivalent to its own body mass.
e0NLn TIL actress Dominique Dunne, most famous for her portrayal of Dana in the 1982 film Poltergeist, was strangled by her ex-boyfriend, John Sweeney, in the driveway of her home shortly after the film's release. She went into a coma and died five days later. Sweeney served less than 4 years in prison.
Oonbg TIL the Netherlands and the british Isles of Scilly were technically at war with each other for 335 years with neither side realizing it. When peace was signed in 1986, the Dutch ambassador joked that it must have been harrowing to the Scillonians "to know we could have attacked at any moment."