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

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o1j7 TIL that, due to felony convictions, 30% of black men in the US are prohibited from ever serving on a jury
PB8g Til that Pakistan puts nuclear warheads in unmarked vans and drives them around the country in a never ending road trim to “keep them safe.”
a8VGN TIL that Mattiedna Johnson, born to Mississippi sharecroppers in 1918, used techniques she’d used to make things like butter, jam and soap on her childhood farm to develop techniques to capture and preserve molds for research that eventually helped in the development of drugs to fight scarlet fever.
oB8E TIL that in 1940, scientists concluded that consumption of ice cream was the leading cause of the polio epidemic, solely based on the stats that there were more cases of polio in the summer, which was also when children ate the most ice cream.
J1OrB TIL The tears on Paul Stanley's face on the album cover for "Rock and Roll Over" were just a printing error...