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TIL: Uri Geller sued Nintendo over “Un Geller” a psychic Pokemon who carried around bent spoons.

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GANjJ TIL that before the 13th amendment banned slavery, an earlier 13th amendment passed congress and was signed by Buchanan saying the government could not interfere with a state's right to have slavery. The Civil War breaking out saved it from going to the people to be ratified.
Jy1m TIL that in 1981 it was proposed to breed cats that changed color when exposed to radiation and write folk songs about this trait so that future generations would have a means to be warned to stay away from contaminated areas such as nuclear waste repositories.
OGXmY TIL Historians rediscovered the tomb of the “missing pharaoh” Thutmose II the first new royal tomb found since Tutankhamun.
l4g7 TIL Victor Salva, the director of “Powder” and the “Jeepers Creepers” series (which has a 3rd coming soon), spent 15 months of a 3-year sentence for molesting the 12-year-old star of his film “Clownhouse”.
BgevL TIL Yaeko Taguchi, a 22-year-old Japanese mother of two, was abducted by North Korea in 1978 after leaving her kids at daycare. Forced to teach Japanese to spy Kim Hyon-hui, later involved in the Korean Air Flight 858 bombing, Kim said Taguchi often wept for her children. Her fate remains unknown.