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TIL that EA makes $420 millon/year off of the Sims 4
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TIL In 1405, the Chinese admiral Zheng He explored Vietnam, Java, Sri Lanka, Mecca and East Africa with 62 ships and 30000 men. The knowledge, ideas, and exotic goods he took back home created an interest in foreign countries which contributed to China's role in world trade in later centuries.
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TIL there is a neighborhood called "The Hole" in NYC. It has no streetlights, sidewalks, or sewers, and it sits 12 feet below the surrounding area (hence the name). It was once home to a farming town, black cowboys, the mob, until finally earning the reputation of the worst neighborhood in NYC
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TIL: In addition to being a MENSA member, Dolph Lundgren put Stallone in the ICU when Sly tried to make Rocky "more realistic".
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TIL that Harriet Tubman carried a gun with her on the Underground Railroad. If a runaway slave threatened to give up and go back to the plantation, she would point the gun at him and threaten to shoot him dead.
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Till Python hunting is allowed in Florida's Everglades as a measure to control the non-native snake, the Pythons originally pets released by their owners have become an invasive species. The giant snakes have decimated local bird populations and wildlife because it has no know natural predators.