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TIL that Douglas Adams designed a video game.

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W7jNB TIL that Dr. Grover Krantz, the first serious academic to study the existence of Sasquatch, has his skeleton, along with that of his Irish Wolf Hound, on display at the Smithsonian.
KYNeJ TIL of Yoshie Shiratori, a Japanese man who successfully broke out of 4 different Japanese prisons (once using miso soup to corrode and break his cuffs). After his 4th escape, he encountered a police officer who offered him a cigarette. Touched by this gesture, he willingly turned himself in again.
GAxKG TIL - Silicon wafers used for making computer chips are sawed from an ingot of silicon, that is grown as a single crystal, that can be 2m long and weigh several hundred kg.
8aYD8 TIL There are more possible Go positions than there are atoms in the universe.
0r0R TIL that the Taung Child - the first Australopithecus fossil ever discovered - was originally killed by a bird of prey after having its eyes gouged out ~2.8 million years ago