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TIL Electronic Arts was actively developing an open world RPG set in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-Earth back in 2007 called The White Council, in the same vein as Bethesda's Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion. The game was canceled though for unknown reasons after a year or so of development

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woXGJ TIL that Hans Christian Andersen wrote The Little Mermaid at the same time a man he was in love with became engaged to a woman, and he was overcome with sorrow
4Xl8N TIL about the ~2,000 yr old Roman aqueduct in Segovia Spain. 15km long. Almost 100 ft at highest. Almost 2,000 km by road to Rome. Carried water into the 1920's
kOPLm TIL: The Library of Alexandria, one of the largest ancient stores of knowledge, burned down, losing anywhere between 40k - 400k scrolls. It is said that even today, scholars still mourn its loss as one of the largest known scholarly losses of all time.
oRygo TIL about the Zebra Murders a string of racially motivated serial killings in California that killed up to 15 people.
bW84 TIL McDonald’s in 2008 saved $278,850,000 by removing one of the two slices of cheese from the McDouble/Double cheeseburger.