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TIL Grand Theft Auto resulted from a glitch in a racing game that was causing the cops to be super aggressive.

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awmjy TIL that in the bible it states you must break any clay pot you find a dead lizard in.
VMYA8 TIL after the success of ‘Shaun of the Dead’, Simon Pegg was asked if would he would leave England for Hollywood. He replied, “It’s not like we’re going to go away and do, I don’t know, Mission: Impossible III.” Two years later, he was cast as Benji in Mission Impossible III
d8BGE TIL of José Sanjurjo a prominent figure in the Spanish civil war, who died when the biplane he rode which was overburdened with his luggage crashed. Before flight the pilot warned Sanjurjo of the danger to which he replied with, "I need to wear proper clothes as the new caudillo of Spain."
N7g81 TIL that the Earl Louis Mountbatten, Prince Philips's uncle, was assassinated. In 1979, an IRA assassin planted a radio controlled bomb on his personal fishing boat, killing him and several others on board.
nemGr TIL after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the US government overprinted banknotes to have the word ‘Hawaii’ marked on them. In case of a Japanese Invasion, the US could immediately declare any Hawaii-stamped notes worthless, due to their easy identification.