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R7vOl TIL - Joerg Buttgereit (director of Nekromantik) created concept and characters for a lost XBox\PS2 game
R544w TIL of George Pickering, who in 2014 held a team of doctors hostage to save the life of his son, declared brain dead after a stroke. He forced them at gunpoint to keep his son on life support during a 3 hour standoff with police, until he felt his son squeeze his hand.
WkQW8 TIL, there are grapes flavored like cotton candy. David Cain created the unique flavor through plant breeding in 2011. He bred 1,000 plants before perfecting the cotton candy flavor.