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TIL that Star Wars: The Old Republic was the most expensive game ever made

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J18Pm TIL there is a town in Norway where it is illegal to die as bodies cannot decompose due to cold temperatures
XEO8D TIL that NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center in Florida is the tallest one-story building in the world and is large enough (volume four times of Empire State Building) that rain clouds have been known to form inside.
nRwB TIL William Shatner and Clint Eastwood helped finance an abandoned POW rescue mission in Laos.
rkld TIL that Alice Walton, heir to the Wal-Mart fortune and one of the richest people in the world, has had a history of reckless collisions. Her latest DWI arrest was expunged after the Texas trooper who arrested her was mysteriously suspended, and the statute of limitations was allowed to expire.
x7P0 TIL Contrary to popular belief, the Egyptian Pyramids were not made by slaves but by paid laborers