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TIL Roller Coaster tycoon was programmed by one guy. In Assembly.

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xrdk TIL there us no safe amount of lead exposure at all; the body thinks it’s calcium, so it goes wherever calcium would. It doesn’t get filtered out - it just accumulates.
j6AdE TIL that it's not free to move out of america and that it costs $2350 to renounce US citizenship and may cost more if you need be tax compliant.
m8x TIL that General Butt Naked would drink the blood or eat the heart of a small child he’d hunted down before going into battle naked except for sneakers and a machine gun, was responsible for 20,000 civilian deaths, and after converting to Christianity has yet to be prosecuted for war crimes.
9ZaB TIL after being in a coma for nearly 8 years, Gary Dockery awoke suddenly and spent the day catching up with family. By the next day he could no longer speak, and he soon slipped back into the coma and never woke up again.
oRE TIL there is a swath of land in West Virginia called the National Radio Quiet Zone where cell phones and WiFi signals are banned