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TIL Halo 2 was delayed due to a developer’s ass being featured in the game.

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rodd TIL The actor who played Darth Vader, David Prowse, stopped learning his lines after learning his voice would be dubbed over. Instead, he would improvise lines, sometimes speaking complete gibberish, forcing his co-stars to respond as if he had said the correct line.
bK1E TIL that Mozart disliked performer Adriana Ferrarese del Bene, who was know for nodding her head down on low notes and raising her head on high notes, so much, that he wrote a song for her to perform that had lots of jumps from low to high just so he could see her head “bob like a chicken” onstage.
bDN0 TIL NASA had an accident while testing spacesuits for the Apollo moon missions, and caught it on camera. The test subject was accidentally depressurized while in a vacuum chamber, and lost consciousness and experienced his own spit boiling. The team took nearly a minute to save him from the chamber.
wX0M TIL there’s a unknown object in the nearby galaxy m82 that started sending out radio waves and the emission does not look like anything seen anywhere in the universe before
1apVr TIL the founder of Herbalife died after overdosing on non-herbal sleep aids