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Today I learned that the creator of Madness Combat is a furry.

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NKy1 TIL Croissants originated as a celebration of Austrian victory over the Ottomans at the siege of Vienna which has led to croissants being banned by some Islamic fundamentalists.
rRBMw TIL a single old coin can buy you a fancy house.
690g7 TIL that in the 18th century English sailors aboard the HMS Dolphin stopped in Tahiti and discovered the women there would take iron in exchange for sex, resulting in the sailors removing nails from the ship and trading them in for their personal gratification.
pDVb TIL that when you get motion sickness, it’s the result of your brain being tricked into thinking you have been poisoned. The discrepancy between your body feeling motion but not seeing it causes you to vomit the non-existent neurotoxin or poison
QNj4X TIL Hans Zimmer had trouble timing the score for Jack Sparrow and Will Turner's fight in "Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl," until an assistant making coffee asked to be given a shot, and that's how Ramin Djawadi ("Game of Thrones," "Iron Man," "Pacific Rim") got his career.