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TIL Netherlands Closed Eight Prisons Due To Lack Of Criminals

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9YmpD TIL that the arcade game Pac-man was originally named Puck-man in Japan, but the name was changed for English-speaking countries because of concerns that the letter “P” would always be vandalized into an “F.”
J9J1 TIL that Shaq was one of the original investors in Google and VitaminWater, but passed up on Starbucks because he didn’t drink coffee.
XEr9X TIL that Morgan Robertson wrote a novel in 1898 about an ocean liner sinking in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg. That is 14 years before the Titanic sunk in the same place and in the same way. And if this was not enough, the novel was titled: "The Wreck of the Titan: Or, Futility".
X04aE TIL Reggie, the most famous alligator in Los Angeles, lived in a local lake and avoided capture for 2 years.
DkYv TIL That Larry, the Chief Mouser of the Cabinet Office, has had his position fall under scrutiny due to both the competitive performances of the Chief Mouser of the Treasury (Gladstone) and the Chief Mouser of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (Palmerston), and his own “lack of killer instinct”.