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

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EbQ7 TIL that when doctors did not belive Drs. Barry Marshall and Robin Warren’s discovery in 1982, which showed that Helicobacter pilory causes stomach ulcers, Marshall himself drank a beaker of H. pylori culture. He bacame ill of stomach ulcers and they won the nobel prize in physiology in 2005.
R5oZ1 TIL the word self-immolation. It refers to the act of burning yourself to death
78epO Today I learned that Super Bowl I was broadcast on both NBC and CBS and that the video tapes of the game were subsequently wiped out by both networks to save costs.
pGJe TIL that an Olympic rower named Henry Pearce stopped mid-race to allow ducklings to pass by him and he still won the race.
4k8rN TIL According to studies counting living humans and english speakers around the world, around 15-20% of humanity speaks english either natively or as a second language.