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TIL RollerCoaster Tycoon was originally created by Chris Sawyer as an excuse to visit theme parks and “research” roller coasters.

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7rD1b TIL NASA used IQ tests for determining which applicants will ultimately become astronauts
oeQA TIL that there is a hanging display in Chicago of 58,226 dog tags of every American soldier killed in Vietnam.
gr0x7 TIL Seichi Junrei - a form of pilgrimage where fans of anime and related media visit real-world locations depicted in their favourite series, contributing to an increase in Japanese tourism
V7VB TIL James Bond villain Yaphet Kotto has expressed that the spy should not be played by a black man, saying “Political correctness be damned, we have to stay with what is literally correct. These roles are not written for black men" and “We have pens to create roles that no one else has established.”
woOvP TIL about the Indiana Pi Bill, a proposed law in 1897 that would have made pi equal to 3.2. Passed unanimously in the Indiana House, it was stopped by a Purdue University mathematician.