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TIL Grand Theft Auto 3 started development as a Sega Dreamcast title before switching to PS2 when it became obvious it was the more commercially viable console

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b6DgE TIL of Hassan Diab who was convicted of bombing a Paris Synagogue which killed four people and is currently teaching a class called "Social Justice in Action" at Carleton University in Canada
xVBX7 TIL Microbes living within tree trunks and root systems generate massive amounts of methane (50-65 million tons of methane annually from wetland trees alone)
XE69R TIL that Nabisco is abbreviated from it's earlier name: National Biscuit Company.
mxjQp TIL that the the concept of "zero" was invented by a 6th century Indian mathematician named Aryabhata. He also theorized on the relativity of motion, worked on the approximation of π, and correctly advocated an astronomical model in which the Earth turns on its own axis
P1MAg TIL ABBA member Anni-Frid was born as a result of the Lebensborn experiment, the scheme run by Heinrich Himmler, leader of the SS, to create an Aryan master race.