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TIL: Rob Folp, creator of the infamously controversial game "Night Trap," went on to create the "Petz" series of games to make the cutest, most "sissy" game he could think of, after criticism from Captain Kangaroo.

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69g7Y TIL that a gothic soap opera ran in the 60s and early 70s called Dark Shadows. This show was focused on the lives of the Colins family who’s characters dealt supernatural monsters and being such as vampires, werewolves, ghosts, witches, and other creatures.
69RwQ TIL Liberace once sued the Daily Mirror for an article saying he was gay, and won the biggest libel settlement at that time.
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XD5E TIL Kanye West’s hook, ‘No one man should have that much power’, quotes a police officers response to a pivotal Harlem protest that Malcolm X organized