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TIL the original Medal of Honor game (1999) - created by Steven Spielberg and credited with the popularisation of WW2 games, thus all the shooters that followed like BF, COD - was almost cancelled because of Columbine

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D1rGJ TIL about Michele Mouton, a former French rally driver. After finishing runner-up in the 1982 WRC, she started competing in the infamous and savage Group B, which was later banned after a string of deaths. Mouton retired as a result, and she remains the last woman to compete in top-level rallying.
XEXaR Today I Learned that simply washing your lenses with soapy water prevents them from fogging when you wear a facemask and that this is a common technique used by surgeons and others in the operating theatre.
R5kD1 TIL Blade: Trinity had a troubling production where Wesley Snipes's stand-in appeared more than the actor. A poor script, Snipes's bitterness over the studio using the final Blade film as a launch pad for a Nightstalkers spin-off, and Snipes's intense method impacted the production.
YORv TIL Astrophysicists at Texas State University have used astrological and geophysical data, along with planetary software, to calculate the exact time and date that Monet created his masterpiece “Étretat, Sunset”: Feb. 5, 1883 at 4:53 p.m. local time
p8r4Q TIL that in 193 AD, the personal bodyguards of the Roman Emperor Pertinax, after killing him, auctioned off the entire Roman Empire. The successful bidder, Didius Julianus was emperor for two months, after which he was beheaded and replaced.