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TIL Douglas Adams worked on Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy while writing for Doctor Who, and later turned a rejected Doctor Who story into the third Hitchhiker’s book.

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d8Bl9 TIL Meat Loaf has sold over 200,000 copies of his first album Bat out of Hell (1977) every year for the past 40 years, making it one of the most successful albums of all time.
loOgG TIL That during the English Civil war in 1649, a Loyalist officer Arthur Aston was beaten to death with his own wooden leg by Parliamentarian soldiers. They believed it held gold coins.
ZRmQ TIL the longest ever recorded sniper kill by British Corporal of Horse Craig Harrison who had to aim 6ft high and 20 inches to the left. The bullet traveled 1.54 miles, dropped 400 feet, and took 6 seconds to arrive.
9gDX TIL Quake III Arena, needing to calculate x^(-½) quickly, used a piece of code so strange, the developers commented the code with “evil floating point bit level hacking” and “what the fuck?”
BA6k TIL King Henry VIII may have possibly had a rare blood type (Kell positive), which would explain his wives’ and mistresses’ many miscarriages as well as his midlife physical and mental deterioration.