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TIL The Unabomber was a subject in CIA MK Ultra experiments at Harvard that may have shaped his personality for his future bombings

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NXaaM TIL Minecraft (2009) was inducted in the Video Game Hall of Fame in 2020, along with Bejewled (2001), King’s Quest (1984), & Centipede (1980). This makes it the first game from the Seventh Generation of video game consoles (2005-13), which includes the PS3, Xbox 360, & Nintendo Wii, to be inducted.
v9Ax TIL Pierre Boulle, author of “Planet of the Apes” and “The Bridge over the River Kwai”, won an Oscar for the later movie adaptation. Not speaking English and not having actually written the screenplay, Boulle gave the shortest acceptance speech in Academy Award history, the single word “Merci”.
LdQQ TIL that you should not ever give rabbits a full body bath, because they may possibly die from shock.
KOQ5a TIL Adam West and Frank Gorshin were once kicked out of orgy because they insisted in staying in character of Batman and The Riddler
94RB TIL that cheetahs were almost wiped out by the last ice-age, and all modern cheetahs are descended from a small portion of the surviving cats that interbred to maintain their species. Because of this, cheetahs are practically genetic clones of one another.