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a8dnb TIL office vacancy rates are at 20.5%
wME8 TIL in 2005 a glitch in World of Warcraft allowed a plague to spread in the game leading non-infected players to abandon cities while those infected were forced into quarantines. It was later studied by epidemiologists to see how real life people would react to a pandemic.
nZBG TIL There was a time when AMD and Intel CPUs used the same socket, and could run on the same motherboard.
8aGA4 TIL that Mao Zedong ordered mass genocide of Sparrows which caused the ecological imbalance as pests and bugs increased rapidly which resulted in less produce which further caused Great Chinese Famine which killed 20-45 million people due to starvation.
LkKa0 TIL during the early years of the Tour de France, guzzling alarming amounts of alcohol was the norm. Beer, wine, and brandy were considered safer to drink than water from questionable roadside wells or springs, and cyclists drank copiously.