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TIL: Christmas has deep pagan roots

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W7k84 TIL of KattenKabinet in Amsterdam, a museum consisting of only cat related stuff
wdwP TIL There are over 250 million years of geological data missing from rock layers. This is called the Great Unconformity.
rNN5o Today I learned Obsidian Entertainment (involved in Planescape: Torment, Kotor II, PoE, Fallout series) worked on a prequel game about Snow White and the Seven Dwarves until it was canceled when Disney declared SW 'untouchable'.
loV9r TIL in 2000 a man attempted to hijack a Philippine Airlines flight, yet after being denied access to the cockpit robbed the passengers at gunpoint before jumping out of the plane to his death attempting to use a parachute he made himself out of nylon and curtains.
PjwL TIL that the Empire State Building makes more money from the observation decks than it does from renting office space