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TIL 99% of Rollercoaster Tycoon was programmed in Assembly single-handedly by one guy

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XKrr TIL that Isaac Newton’s “Principia Mathematica” almost wasn’t published by the Royal Society of London because they had spent their whole budget on a book about fish, called “The History of Fishes”. The cost was instead covered by astronomer Edmund Halley
j6Amn TIL about Erich Hartmann, a German WW2 fighter pilot who is credited with 352 official kills, the highest scoring fighter pilot of all time.
loZ7V TIL €3.80 was the price Scooter paid for his fish. The decade old question now has an answer!
OGkY1 TIL The Statue of Liberty was originally designed for the Suez Canal in Egypt
eVak TIL ice worms are worms that live in glaciers. If they are exposed to temperatures above 40°F, they melt!