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TIL Rockstar hired a PR firm to stir outrage when launching GTA in the '90s, targeting right-wing newspapers to ensure moral backlash. The negative press made the game controversial and therefore popular, driving it to early success.

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JY54j TIL In the original Cinderella Story the ball was set over three days, and Cinderella had eluded him the first two nights, so the prince had set a mousetrap and covered the palace stairs in tar to catch Cinderella before she escaped.
JYOa8 TIL the Suicide Rates per Capita in the infamous Foxconn factories that produce Iphones are lower than all 50 US states
Lrep TIL “That 70’s Show” premiered in 1998, 28 years after 1970. If a hypothetical “That 90’s Show” were to air with the same offset, it would premiere 3 years from now.
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VmmD TIL A Milwaukee man in prison for a fatal shooting, broke out, took on the identity of a dead child and became a successful business man. It all unraveled 33 years later when his wife came across a Facebook post mentioning the dead child.