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TIL Sid Meier didn’t include multiplayer in the original Civilization game because “if you had friends, you wouldn’t need to play computer games.”

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69vAY TIL that Tom Brady was the last player drafted by the Montreal Expos to retire from his playing career
7JaL TIL that concrete was poured into an ant colony, and then excavated. It spanned 50 sq meters underground, and went 8 meters deep.
jgwn TIL when a city in Indiana replaced all their signaled intersections with roundabouts, construction costs dropped $125,000, gas savings reached 24k gallons/year per roundabout, injury accidents dropped 80%, and total accidents dropped 40%.
x6AQB TIL The oldest flamingo lived to be 83. It arrived at Adelaide Zoo in Australia in 1933 and died in 2014.
DE7D TIL John Ssabunnya was abandoned in the jungle as a toddler when his mother was murdered in 1988. He was found in 1991 living feral with a group of monkeys.