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TIL there was a planned military coup at the end of the US Revolutionary War

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a8r5y TIL Cameroonian footballer Roger Milla came out of retirement and played at the 1990 FIFA World Cup after a request made by Cameroon president Paul Biya. He scored 4 goals in 1990 WC as a substitute as he started every game of the tournament on the bench.
LkVRd TIL - The guy who wrote the dialogue for Portal was diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis while working on it. He tried to quit Valve, and Gabe Newell gave him extended leave and told him that his only job was to get better.
v1o6L TIL that when songwriter John Loudermilk's 1956 song "A Rose and a Baby Ruth" became a huge hit, the manufacturer sent him a custom 100 lb Baby Ruth candy bar, which he took to an orphanage and they cut it up with an ax to distribute to the children.
kJ4RE TIL Four NASA interns stole $20 million in moon rocks in order to sell them for profit. Two of said interns reportedly crushed up sample and placed them under a pillow on order to “have sex on the Moon”
yyAJ TIL Marilyn Manson wrote an article in 1999 after the Columbine shooting and blamed the media for making the murderers ‘celebrities’