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TIL that Skyrim is the first video game developed entirely by non-Japanese companies to receive a perfect rating from them.

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J1mj4 TIL with his dad totally against it, 19-yr-old Fabio Lanzoni moved to the US & within 48 hrs of arriving he walked into the Ford modeling agency without an appointment & walked out with a $150K contract. The next day he was hired for the launch of Gap Inc. Then began to pose for 15 book covers a day
xWlo TIL the population of Kabul, Afghanistan has grown from 500,000 in 2001 to about 4 million today after the elimination of the Taliban regime.
wLaj7 TIL that for the past 15 years, Brazilian football team Corinthians has never lost a match held right before or after a Taylor Swift solo album release, but always lost the match held after the release of a Paul McCartney solo album.
wLpaP TIL Plato won Pankration in the Olympics twice, a form of fighting that only bars gouging and biting. Plato itself is a nickname meaning "Broad shouldered".
epAV5 TIL The Disaster comes the greek δυσ- (dus-) "bad"[9] and ἀστήρ meaning Bad Star. Separately it has long been thought the biggest threat to modern society is Solar Storm much like the Carrington event of 1859