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TIL Nearly 37% of purchased Steam games are never played.

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4eKX TIL: Before filming a scene, Jeff Bridges would frequently ask the Coen Brothers “Did the Dude burn one on the way over?” If they said he had, he would rub his knuckles in his eyes before doing a take.
jdkQ TIL “300” is the most death-packed film of all time, with an average of 5 people dying on-screen every minute
OGXA4 TIL of a controversial D&D exploit called the Peasant Railgun where players hire 2,280 peasants to stand in a line and use the Ready Action to pass a wooden pole down the line in one combat round, theoretically accelerating it to 1,900 mph and dealing 300d6 damage.
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nxNG TIL after Luvosky left Microsoft for Google, Steve Ballmer picked up his chair, threw it across his office and said, “Fucking Eric Schmidt is a fucking pussy. I’m going to fucking bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I’m going to fucking kill Google