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TIL “Eigengrau” is the color seen by the eye in perfect darkness

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7WmX TIL The Guinness World Records 2009 Gamer’s Edition lists GTA San Andreas as the videogame with the largest voice cast, with 861 credited voice actors, including 174 actors and 687 additional performers, many of those performers being fans of the series who wanted to appear on the game.
jNp5a TIL Zürich has around 1200 water fountains. That’s an average of one every 0.03 miles of the city’s 34 square miles
X9WR TIL Nintendo never intended to create Mario. The original arcade Donkey Kong was intended to be a Popeye game. When they lost the license, they came up with their own characters; Mario for Popeye, Donkey Kong for Bluto and Pauline for Olive Oyl.
b6yWZ TIL: That during the mad cow crisis in the 90s, reactions to the West were overwhelmingly negative in India, where cows hold a special place in the hearts of Hindus. Hindu associations declared that the West had been punished with the appearance of sick humans for its zoophagy, or meat-eating.
R5b7 TIL that The Vatican helps fund a large binocular telescope that has an instrument named L.U.C.I.F.E.R.