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

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VMgXB TIL Abraham Lincoln's corpse was sent on a two-week funeral tour across America, shown openly to thousands. In the course of the trip the body visibly decomposed, bloated, and darkened. In New York City alone, the body was seen by over 150,000 and exposed to the air for 23 hours straight
ZpmKB TIL that the reason mint tastes cold is that menthol activates a protein called TRPM8 in your nerve cells that normally respond to cold. It is the only food that does do. (Although capsaicin, similarly, activates a different protein, VR1, that senses heat.)
GeVG TIL the tallest statue in the US is the Statue of Liberty. The second tallest statue in the US is of Pegasus slaying a dragon at a horse track in Florida.
lo4bA TIL of Henry Lucas, who in 1663 founded a professorship of mathematics at Cambridge University. The "Lucasian Professor of Mathematics" has become hugely prestigious, with holders including Isaac Newton, Charles Babbage, Paul Dirac and Stephen Hawking.
4OyN TIL in one of the earliest instances of investigative journalism (1872), a reporter with the New York Tribune had himself commited/sectioned in order to report on abuse in mental asylums. His work led to the release of twelve incorrectly diagnosed patients and a change in the “lunacy laws.”