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TIL Dubai is building the world’s first indoor city which will be 48 million sq ft (4.5 million sq m)

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WkmbY TIL that the developers of the racing simulator game Assetto Corsa were attempting to find the source of what they believed to be a bug with the in-game traction control. In reality, the "bug" was the simulation accurately recreating a real world physics problem they were unaware of.
mxnvY TIL 80's pop group Spandau Ballet got their name after seeing it written on a nightclub toilet. Spandau Ballet actually refers to prisoner hangings at Spandau Prison and their twitching and jumping at the end of the rope.
POyL TIL in 2011, instead of taking steps to alleviate their drought problems, the state of Texas decided to call for 3 days of prayer, after which their drought became much more severe.
Zp7Mv TIL that Mercedes McCambridge's (the actress who voiced the demon in The Exorcist) son embezzled extensively from his company, got caught, and murdered his family and then himself. He blamed his mother.
8ee0b TIL when rock-formatted radio station WLUP-FM in Chicago were, at the time, being sold to a Christian broadcaster in March 2018, radio DJ Steve Dahl wanted WLUP to play "Highway to Hell" by AC/DC to be its final song before the reformat.