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TIL Alexander J. Vilicky, a 19 year old modder, insulted Bethesda and said he could make much better DLC than them with a fraction of the resources. He then made The Falksaar Mod, which included almost 30 hours of new content. Because of this, Bungie had hired him as a developer at their studios.

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6Ewbl TIL that in 2019 there was a sixth Terminator movie (after Terminator: Genysis) which so few people saw that that it was even less successful than Terminator: Genysis. The film grossed only 13% of what was needed to break even and was considered a box office bomb due to lukewarm critical reception.
1a9QX TIL that Alan Moore wrote Rorschach in 'Watchmen' to be Batman in the real world but didn't realize that 'smelling' and 'not having a girlfriend' would come off as heroic to comic fans. "Fans come up and say I'm Rorschach. This is my story and I'm thinking, Could you never come near me again?"
p8l9N TIL that median and mean age of automobiles in the USA has steadily increased since 1969, when the mean age was 5.1 years. By 2009 the median had increased to 9.4 years.
jENn TIL U.S. mint planned to introduce an aluminum penny in the 1970’s but then canceled the plans out of concern that if people ate them doctors wouldn’t be able to detect them with x-rays.
AeV7 TIL George Orwell had difficulty finding a publisher for ‘Animal Farm.’ It was rejected because it was critical of the Soviet Union. Written during WWII, it was feared that it might hurt relations between Britain and the USSR. When it was finally published the preface about censorship was omitted.