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TIL 5.93million YEARS of game play have been clocked in WoW

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vPPNx TIL about the movie "Saved from the Titanic," released just 31 days after the disaster. It starred an actress who'd been aboard the ship and wore the clothes she'd worn the night it sank. Reportedly traumatized by reliving the tragedy, she quit acting soon after. The film was lost in a 1914 fire.
eXVb TIL The Gutians were a pale & blond people from modern Iran who conquered the Akkadian Empire and briefly conquered the Sumerian Empire before disappearing from records in 2050 BC. Historians believe they might have been part of a recent wave of Indo-European migration into the Middle-East
5YZAP TIL: Paris was strictly and island city in the Seine until nearly 1000 AD.
8aGJ8 TIL Italian artist Piero Manzoni filled 90 tin cans with feces, called it 'Artist's shit' and sold them for up to €124,000 a tin. In August 2016, at an art auction in Milan, one of the tins sold for a new world record of €275,000, including auction fees.
vP8kr TIL that authors sometimes use the "Small Penis Rule" as a strategy to avoid defamation lawsuits. They give their characters small penises as a way of preventing others from claiming that the character is based on their likeness.