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TIL The famous nuclear Ghandi bug from the game Civilization doesn't exist, he would research nuclear weapons faster than most civs in game however

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aZwo TIL that a Baltimore bike-sharing program was destroyed in one night. In May 2014, about 50 youths entered Druid Hill Park and stole about 50 bicycles used for free rides in the park. The program had been in operation since 2006.
KOrP4 TIL that Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died within hours of each other on the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1826)
R5gx9 TIL that the origin of the English word ‘cat’ is coming from the Late Latin word cattus, cata, catta. “Cattus” was first used at the beginning of the 6th century and is derived from an Egyptian precursor of Coptic šau, “tomcat”.
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