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TIL that Stardew Valley was created by Eric Barone who was the sole developer on the game. He did all of the programming, designed all of pixel art and produced all of the music. He graduated with a computer science degree in 2011 but couldn't find a job in the industry and made the game. Inspiring.

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epPY6 TIL that Nietzsche's central concepts of Will to Power and Eternal Recurrence were in part inspired by long-forgotten natural scientist Johannes Gustav Vogt's "Force: A Realistic and Monistic Worldview" (1878), a work nowhere to be found and de facto lost for all of us
8BNX TIL that Philippe Petit walked a tightrope between the World Towers for 45 minutes in 1974. He performed stunts and even lay down on the rope during this time. He was arrested afterward and, when asked why he did it, he said: “When I see three oranges, I juggle; when I see two towers, I walk.”
PYRkL TIL that Fredrick the Great, tried to introduce the potato to Germany. It failed, so he created a potato farm that had guards to make the potato's seem valuable, but the guards were ordered to "guard" the fields but were purposely bad. This act made the potato a staple in German food.
Ovga TIL that Ocean Spray, which does nearly $2 billion in sales, is an agricultural cooperative owned by more than 700 cranberry farmers.
X0AwP TIL, in 1916, German agents blew up 2 million pounds of munitions on Black Tom Island in NY Harbor. The explosion damaged the Statue of Liberty.