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

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Vd8 TIL a 2,300 year old man was found preserved so well they could tell he used gel for his Mohawk
79OM TIL Underneath Beijing there is a city spanning 33 square miles called Dixia Cheng. It was built in the 1970’s due to rising tensions between China and the Soviet Union.
wLWko TIL about Yun Sim-deok, known as Korea's first soprano. Her song "Hymn of Death" became Korea's first pop song; selling 100,000 copies after her death in 1926. Yun had been having an affair with the married writer Kim Woo-jin and the pair committed suicide together by jumping off a passenger ship.
x6kr5 TIL about Gary DeVore, a screenwriter, who disappeared in 1997 while night driving from Santa Fe, NM to Santa Barbara, CA. A year after disappearing, Devore and his Ford Explorer were found in an aqueduct in Palmdale, CA. Devore's hands, script and gun were missing. His death remains a mystery.
1yaO TIL When astronomer Fritz Zwicky, father of dark matter, was banned from using the 200 inch Palomar telescope, he replied by calling them “a load of spherical bastards” because, he explained, they are bastards no matter which direction you look at them from.