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TIL that the game WoW had virtual pandemic-like accident in which scientists actually tried to research people's reaction into epidemics.

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VMklk TIL the Molotov Cocktail was not invented by Russians, but instead by under-supplied Finns who used them as improvised anti-tank weapons against the USSR in the Winter War. The famous Finnish alcoholic beverage company ALKO actually switched to mass producing Molotov Cocktails during the war.
9Y9BB TIL that at a 1976 Amsterdam chess tournament, Soviet grandmaster Viktor Korchnoi politely asked an English competitor how to spell the words "political asylum." He then went straight to a police station and announced that he wished to defect.
Q06X TIL that Hershey has promised to stop using child slave labor to produce their chocolate. By 2020.
W7eGd TIL postwar Warsaw, Poland was rebuilt using 18th century paintings.
AKPd TIL that not only was Tim Curry Tim Burton’s second choice for The Joker in 1989’s BATMAN, he also was the voice of The Joker for four episodes of Batman: The Animated Series before his performance was deemed “too scary for children.”