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TIL the Nuclear Gandhi bug from Civilization actually never existed

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Eg69p TIL Paracetamol overdose is one of the leading causes of acute liver failure
dDDA9 TIL about Malaga Island, a mixed race community off the coast of Maine that was forcibly depopulated in 1912.
p8XGN TIL in 1993, actress Brigitte Nielsen was chosen to play She-Hulk in a live action film based on the Marvel Comics character. Publicity stills were taken for the movie but the project was canceled, never seeing the light of day.
xVyXb TIL In four years at West Point, General Custer amassed a record-total of 726 demerits, one of the worst conduct records in the history of the academy, and finished at the bottom of his class
0wKQp TIL that Christianity became the state religion of the Roman Empire in the 380s, when Emperor Theodosius banned Pagan rituals and holidays, disbanded the Vestal virgins, extinguished the Sacred Fire, destroyed the Temple of Apollo at Delphi and put an end to the Ancient Olympic Games