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TIL that the Chinese Internet & Gaming studio NetEase Games, the studio behind Marvel Rivals, who also operated the Chinese version of Blizzard Entertainment games from 2008 to 2023, such as World of Warcraft, StarCraft II, and Overwatch, owns multiple pig farms.

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WaeY TIL that the camel spider, also known as a wind scorpion, is neither a spider nor a scorpion
eyGJ TIL that when Earth passed through the tail of Halley’s Comet during its 1910 approach, there was public fear that a gas discovered in the tail, cyanogen, would destroy all life on the planet, leading to people buying gas masks and “Anti-Comet Pills.”
kJ145 TIL Common Smoke detectors in Russia use weapons grade Plutonium-239 for the source.
pYKZ TIL that over 1 billion years of history is missing from the geologic record in the Grand Canyon
XAeX TIL: Richard Feynman was divorced for doing too much calculus