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TIL Doomguy, the protagonist of the game 'Doom', has a pet rabbit named Daisy, who appears in both the original games and the rebooted series.

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7jnx TIL the pirate Hayreddin “Red beard” Barbarossa (1478-1546) was exiled from so many countries that he ended up starting his own country (Regency of Algiers) with the blessing of The Ottoman Empire which became present day Algeria, Tunisia and parts of Morocco.
0wYP1 TIL how blind people use the iPhone using Braille Screen Input
M7RE0 TIL Norway built a doomsday vault on their Arctic territory, Svalbard: A 'seed bank' containing over 1 million seeds from 4,000+ plant species, as a means to protect the world's food supply.
PY4oE TIL about Neil Horan, a laicized Irish Roman Catholic priest that tackled Vanderlei de Lima during the 2004 Athens Olympics marathon, arguably costing de Lima the gold medal.
VnYm TIL Japan has an “untouchable” class, the Burakumin, which still faces discrimination in some areas to this day.