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TIL that ¾ of American lesbians are overweight.
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TIL: that a group of developers spent 8 years Recreating Streets Of Rage. The game had over 100 levels, 19 playable characters, and 76 remixed songs. Sega shut it down a week after it was released.
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TIL of Charles Bliss, who invented Blissymbols- a universal written language. It was a total flop, until in 1965 he discovered it was being used to communicate with kids with cerebral palsy. He promptly sued the small organization using it because they had made changes to aid in communication.
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TIL it is thought that the genes for light skin appeared in Anatolia (the westernmost protrusion of Asia) by about 8,500 years ago, & only became widespread in Europe by about 5,000 years ago.
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TIL that Russell-Whitehead spent 300 pages in their seminal work Principia Mathematica proving that 1+1=2.
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TIL that in 2007 a marketing campaign for Aqua Teen Hunger Force led to a bomb scare and 2 million dollars in damages