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TIL VALVe, the creator of half life and team fortress 2 also created steam

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j6NWX TIL that Jimmy Carter's longevity is actually an outlier in his family. His father, two sisters, and brother all died between the ages of 51-63; and all to same ailment: pancreatic cancer
6EnGm TIL When Nigeria gained its independence from Britain in 1960, it was in the main boardroom of the newly constructed Federal Palace Hotel that Nigeria's independence declaration was signed. This boardroom is now one of the main features of the hotel's casino
OalX TIL the word hexadecimal should really be sexadecimal (proper latin) or hexadecadic (proper greek) but hexadecimal was used so that computer hackers wouldn’t abbreviate it as “sex”.
X0rkP TIL there’s a rare form of cancer called NUT carcinoma that can form anywhere in the body, but is caused by a mutation in a gene that encodes the “NUT” protein that is expressed almost exclusively in testis.
nWmj7 TIL that Eiji Aonuma, deputy general manager at Nintendo and former project manager for The Legend of Zelda games, is in a brass band called The Wind Wakers