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TIL Dmitry Glukhovsky wrote the novel 'Metro 2033' when he was 18. He published the novel on his website available for free. This eventually led to a video game deal with 4A Games & a comic deal with Dark Horse comics.

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78Anb TIL about the El Cid Castle, an abandoned castle-like building in Phoenix, Arizona that was supposed to be a bowling alley but it took 20 years to complete and closed a year after it was opened after the owner was arrested for diversion of Medicare funds, that made him go bankrupt.
GAv0G TIL that in ancient Rome plebeians would leave the cities during the "secession of the plebeians." This left the elites to fend for themselves.
DQn4v TIL by simply paying off the Mexican Navy, bucheros, or the local illegal fisherman, have reduced the smallest dolphin in the world, vaquita marina, to a number of 8. Many believe the animal is just a myth.
Meo58 TIL Sylvester Stallone taught John Travolta how to be fit in 1983, Stallone in later years began to refer actors who want to gain weight to dinner at his old friends home to help them fatten up
bVEa TIL clockwise was called sunwise before the invention of clocks.