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TIL that the publishers of the game ‘Advent Rising’ originally offered $1,000,000 to the first person to find all hidden symbols within the game, but then had to change it to 'copies of several of its games’ due to issues with Xbox Live.

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a8xdZ TIL As many as 1 in 4 residents in La Rinconada, the highest human settlement in the world, suffer from hypoxia.
8wBa TIL that there is a plan to send fertilized frozen embryos to habitable planets nearby. The newborns will be raised by robots who will build a civilization while the babies are growing.
e04aL TIL that in April of 2018, scientists at the Gladstone Institutes in California completely erased Alzheimer’s disease damage in human cells by changing the structure of one protein.
vPp14 TIL that on June 12, 1942, a Beaufighter Mk.1C conducted a raid in broad daylight at very low altitude along the Champs-Élysées to drop a French flag and then attacked the headquarters Gestapo building with a rocket.
9v6p TIL Johnny Cash’s hit “A Boy Named Sue” was written by famed American author Shel Silverstein.