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TIL Activision tried to buy out Tony Hawk’s royalty rights from him for $500k when the game was launching. He declined.

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QkA9 TIL that when a cat died in Ancient Egypt, their human family would go into a deep mourning and shave their eyebrows.
R7xv9 TIL the tongue and hyoid bone of this pileated woodpecker wrap around its skull to help cushion the brain while it's pecking for food. The bird's inner-skull contains compressible sponge-like bone, mostly concentrated in the forehead and the back of the skull, which functions as a shock absorber.
n5kG TIL that under current South Korean laws if war breaks out South Korea doesn’t want to control its own military instead it wants the Americans to tell them what to do
yQLrp TIL that The Hunt for Red October (1990), Patriot Games (1992), and The Sum of All Fears (2002) are all apart of the same film series, the most recent of which was Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014) starring Chris Pine.
6EMAl TIL In 1977 Tony Kiritsis held Richard Hall hostage for 63 hours before surrendering, Kiritsis was found not guilty by reason of insanity. At the time of the trial, Indiana law required the prosecution to prove the defendant sane, the law has subsequently changed so defense has to prove insanity.