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TIL of Gondal, a world building project by Emily Bronte (writter of Wuthering Heights) with her sister Anne, mostly because they got sick of their older siblings, Branwell and Charlotte, kept dominating their previous world building game, the Glasstown Confederacy

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b9Ek0 TIL Mars only gets close enough to Earth to give up much detail just once every 780 days. It’s the only planet to reveal an appreciable amount of surface detail in a small telescope, and it also features occasional surprises such as dust storms and local fogs and cloud banks
DQ5kv TIL there was a game show where the whole premise was to surprise couples/women in labor and have them answer questions for baby related prizes.
wLA46 TIL that Tolkein's Lord of The Rings trilogy has a word count of 481,103 words. In comparison, book 3 of another popular fantasy saga A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin called A Storm of Swords alone has a word count of 424,000 words.
kJLEm TIL that there is a comic where Marvel villain Thanos tortures a man named David every year on his birthday by visiting him and ruining his day somehow. This is for no reason other than to inflict pain and suffering on a personal level, and David was chosen at random.
pY8ZN TIL the McDonald’s value menu hamburger is pretty much the same size as the original burger when the chain was founded 70 years ago, larger burgers were not offered. Fast food portion sizes have drastically increased, and the weight of the average American male is up about 30lbs since.