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TIL I learned that Andy Weir, author of the Martian, worked at Blizzard Entertainment to make Warcraft II

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BgrwW TIL that Gone with the Wind (1939) still has the box office record for number of tickets sold in USA/Canada.
wLwkE TIL the USSR tried to domesticate moose for use in a Communist cavalry.
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