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TIL St Adrian is the patron saint of arms dealers (he also covers butchers, guards, soldiers and peacekeeping missions)

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m181O TIL the first Who Wants to Be a Millionaire video game was developed by Jellyvision, the creators of You Don't Know Jack, and became one of the fastest-selling PC games of all time.
m1jmo TIL A former skyscraper hotel in downtown Houston was left empty from 1988 until 2013 when it was converted into a Holiday Inn. The vacant building still had electricity, a library, and squattors who made themselves at home with leftover furnishings
JDWl TIL that serial killer Ted Bundy took advantage of an obscure Florida law that states that any declaration of marriage in a courthouse with the presence of a judge constitutes a legal marriage. He married during the trial in which he was sentenced to death.
reDM TIL Death Note was banned in China in 2005. Students had been making Death Notes, writing the names of acquaintances, enemies, and teachers in the books.
0w97L TIL of the "Hydraulic Empire" theory. It states that civilizations developing in areas with low abundance of water are fated to develop regulating systems and ultimately despotism, and that Europe developed republicanism due to a large excess of it.