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TIL Mindscape, The Game Dev company that developed Lego Island, fired their Dev team the day before release, so that they wouldn't have to pay them bonuses.

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GAAgQ TIL Charles Whitman, the UT Tower shooter in 1966, had a glioblastoma brain tumor that could have (but not with certainty) explained his actions in murdering his wife and mom, and shooting/killing dozens of people at UT.
9YXLp TIL that the Second Battle of Ypres was the first time a former colonial force (the 1st Canadian Division) defeated a European power (the German Empire) in Europe (at the Battle of St. Julien and Battle of Kitcheners' Wood).
JYX6Q TIL the birth control pill used to be known as the "red pill"
makM TIL in the most extensive case of health care billing fraud in US Department of Justice history, in which 243 people were busted for fraudulent billing to the tune of $712M, one Doctor had billed for 205 hours in a single day.
9wOvM TIL Russian mathematician and Fields Medalist Vladimir Voevodsky was expelled from Moscow State University for not attending classes and failing academically. He then got a PhD from Harvard despite no degree and having never applied after being recommended based on several independent publications.