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TIL a man peed his way out of an avalanche

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WQ5B TIL Piers Morgan forged evidence on the Iraqi torture scandal, which he never apologized for, and ended up getting fired from the Mirror which led him to join CNN
WGd9 TIL only one of M. Night Shyamalan’s movies has lost money (Wide Awake in 1998)
l7XNV TIL that Flight of the Bumblebee was originally intended to only be an interlude, or a song played in between acts, to Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's play. Despite its unimportant part in the play, it still became one of the most recognizable classical songs due to its frequent usage in pop culture.
LkdLV TIL that the Masamune, a sword appearing in many JRPG's was a real sword. The Honjō Masamune represented the Togukawa Shogunate and was a Japanese National Treasure. In 1946, all swords were confiscated, and an American called "Sgt. Coldy Biltmore" took the sword. The sword is still missing today.
0Llj TIL Mojang, the creators of Minecraft, created a game similar to No Man’s Sky: 0x10c. It included a fully working virtual computer, random encounters, an advanced economy system and multiplayer modes in a consistent universe. It was cancelled by Notch as he found “it not being very fun to play”.