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TIL That ESPN used to broadcast the card game Magic: The Gathering

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v1O1R TIL Keanu Reeves was sued by a woman who suggested that he used hypnosis and impersonated her ex-husband to impregnate her. She sought $3 million in spousal support from the actor, and $150,000/month, retroactively, in child support. DNA test proved he was not the father and the suit was thrown out.
AD887 TIL Madagascar got its name when Marco Polo confused the island with the city of Mogadishu and then misspelled the name in his writings.
X0nGQ TIL there is some pacific islands with cults that warship airplanes and pray for cargo drops
b6WM0 TIL that while mixing their hit song "Africa", Toto keyboardist, Steve Porcaro wrote a new song on the side, inspired by his daughter. While the melody was set, it never materialized as a song until it was picked up by another singer. The singer was Michael Jackson. The song was Human Nature
xVdwk TIL that William Shakespeare was inspired to write "Hamlet" - a play driven by the grief of a son for his father - by the death of his own son, Hamnet, who died at age 11. He began work on Hamlet a couple of years later. Until that time he had most been writing comedy plays.