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TIL that 35 out of the 49 GiB of data for the game Titanfall are just uncompressed audio files, because the developers thought that uncompressing it would use up too much CPU resources on low-end systems.

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9w8jr TIL that the music theme associated with the circus was originally composed by Julius Fučík as a military march.
6LvX TIL there is a restraunt in New Mexico named Tims Place. You can order breakfast, lunch, and hugs! The owner, Tim Harris, has Down syndrome and has given out over 40,000 hugs
8ea84 TIL that in addition to Little Boy and Fat Man the Manhattan project also worked on a design called "Thin Man". The project was shelved after it was found that plutonium isotope impurities would have likely caused it to blow itself apart prematurely.
kOoBe TIL the International Space Station (ISS) can orbit "straight through" an aurora event. When it happened on 23 February 2016 Timothy Peake, a European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut aboard the ISS, said it was "eerie but very beautiful."
1n5O TIL the word ‘callipygian’ meaning 'having shapely buttocks’ or in modern day words ’ bootylicious’