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TIL that when Bill Watterson turned down the opportunity to license and merchandise “Calvin and Hobbes,” it was estimated that he was turning down $300-400 million to maintain the integrity and purity of the comic.

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wLLJY TIL that Emperor Commodus would club citizens of Rome missing their feet tethered together to death while pretending they were giants in the arena.
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