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W7JQY TIL the CG director of Silent Hill, Takayoshi Sako, created all the game's cutscenes by himself. He used the office's 150 computers to render the scenes after all the other employees left for the night. He also slept under his desk and lived at the office for the 3 years it took him to finish.
lonXV TIL that the Orthodox churches in Ethiopia and Eritrea generally recognize ~80 books of the bible (compared to 66 for Protestants). This entire biblical canon has never been published together at once before, and some books are hard to obtain, even in churches in Ethiopia and Eritrea.
OXm6 TIL Johnny Cash voice recorded himself reading the entire King James New Testament, and is available to listen to.
neaJ7 TIL a 61-year-old Texas home brewer came into an emergency room completely hammered with a 0.37% BAC, claiming that he hadn’t had a sip of booze. Turns out the yeast in his stomach fermented sugars from the food he was eating into ethanol.
N7Vb TIL that a survivor or the Hiroshima atomic bombing was introduced to the pilot of the Enola Gay on live television. Sad awkwardness ensues…