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TIL that Douglas Adams designed a video game.

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VMZkD TIL that the Geneva Freeport, a warehouse complex in Geneva, houses approximately 1.2 million works of art with an estimated value of $100 billion, as well as gold bars and about 3 million bottles of wine. A small room that can hold multiple objects costs anywhere from $5,000 to $12,000 per month
P1NVL TIL The Solar System is surrounded by colossal spherical shell of trillions of icy objects called the Oort Cloud
LQl1r TIL there is a delicacy called 'Laurices' that involves consuming rabbit fetuses.
n5Qo TIL The airport code for San Carlos Airport, the nearest airport to Oracle Headquarters, has the code “SQL”
PYGeE TIL the South Pacific island of Niue was named "Savage Island" by Captain James Cook, because the natives he saw were painted in what looked like blood (it was actually hulahula, a native red fe'i banana). That name was used until the original name "Niue", meaning "behold the coconut", regained use