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TIL Antarctica used to be covered in lush rainforests well adapted to months with no sunlight in the winter

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5oJr TIL “channel drift” is a term used to describe when a TV channel loses it’s original purpose. (The Learning Channel showing Here Comes Honey Boo Boo
LQeb9 TIL that in 1985, video game publisher Firebird released “Don’t Buy This,” a compilation of the five worst games ever submitted to them. Beyond mocking the developers, they also disowned their copyright to the game and encouraged buyers to pirate it.
VEY0 TIL that Alan Moore (author of Watchmen and V for Vendetta) wrote a pornographic graphic novel named Lost Girls. The three main characters were Alice from “Alice in Wonderland”, Dorothy from “The Wizard of Oz” and Wendy from “Peter Pan”.
YYdB TIL a man spent 12 years trapped inside his body watching ‘Barney’ reruns
1omP TIL that Bhutan is the only country to have officially adopted gross national happiness instead of the gross domestic product as the main development indicator