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

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gMyK8 TIL that the Basque language is a "language isolate" - it seems to have no genetic relation to any other known language. It is thought to be the last surviving remnant of an ancient language family that existed in Western Europe before the arrival of the Indo-European languages from the East.
nWnJb TIL about Barlaam and Josaphat, two legendary Christian saints whose stories are based on the life story of the Buddha
4XGBN TIL What the sheet music painted on the butt of one of the subjects in the Hieronymus Bosch painting 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' sounds like, and it's kind of incredible
1oY8 TIL that supplying all domestic water by sea water desalination would increase the United States’ energy consumption by around 10%, about the amount of energy used by domestic refrigerators.
xVZL7 TIL that Camus could have been a professional goalkeeper, but he got diagnosed with tuberculosis and had to switch career, also his Mom was deaf