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

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Q1pa TIL some sap-sucking sea slugs incorporate living chloroplasts from the algae they eat into their own bodies, allowing the slugs to temporarily live off of solar energy through photosynthesis. For this reason they are also known as “solar-powered sea slugs.”
X0b46 TIL Ann Putnam, one of the Salem Witchcraft accusers, later publicly apologized to the victims' families for her role in the trials. Her apology was accepted by the son of Rebecca Nurse, one of the victims.
ODke TIL In 2009, an estimated 31,000,000 birds died from being confused by light pollution while migrating overnight. Simply turning off the lights can potentially save tens of millions of birds from colliding with glass.
Me6xm TIL The Wild West only lasted around 30 years.
d81O8 TIL During the filming of Spartacus, Kirk Douglas & Stanley Kubrick had such a bad relationship that they got therapy together.