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TIL that a sect of Christianity believes the Book of Revelation was just a fanciful re-telling of Nero’s reign

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ObAY TIL the Caribbean Taino natives believed in a deity called Guabancex, the goddess of chaos and destruction, who could call upon a storm called the “juracán”. This is where the Spanish word “huracán” comes from, which later became the English word “hurricane”.
OGYeR TIL Ubisoft is the biggest game developer by number of employees (>20,000 employees) and owns the largest in-home development studio worldwide, Ubisoft Montreal (>4,000 employees)
4X55a TIL a miner in the California desert spent 40 years digging a half-mile tunnel alone, by hand. Twenty years into the project, the state completed a road that eliminated the need for the tunnel, but the miner spent another two decades finishing it.
LmKd TIL that JJ Abrams has made a deal with Valve to produce films based on Portal and Half-Life
ADxMd TIL The number of students caught cheating at the UK's top universities (including Oxford and Cambridge) increased by a third in three years. There was a surge in cases of academic misconduct.