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

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JYV4 TIL a 3-bedroom house in Flint, Michigan can be bought for $420
JYd4j TIL of Aleksa Zdravkovic, a Serbian soldier who carried the same loaf of bread baked by his mother for 8 years through the Balkan Wars and WWI as a good luck charm until he returned home to Pirot. It remains preserved in a museum to this day.
oBkoE TIL that when British scientists discovered homosexual behavior in penguins in 1911, they were so shocked that they published the study in Greek so it would remain accessible to only a few scientists.
QJ8Vk TIL in 1823, an eleven-year-old Liszt met the 53-year-old Beethoven who told Liszt that "It will be your destiny to bring joy and delight to many people and that is the greatest happiness one can achieve"
R7vYw TIL The meter (metre) was originally defined to be one ten millionth of the distance between the North Pole and the Equator through Paris