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TIL John Favreau credits Dungeons & Dragons with giving him a really strong background in imagination, storytelling, understanding how to create tone and a sense of balance

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6AY TIL there is a disease where you eventually stop sleeping, and then die. There is no cure.
mBEE TIL that in 1958, United States Air Force lost a 7,600-pound (3,400 kg) Mark 15 nuclear bomb in the waters off Tybee Island near Savannah, Georgia, United States. It has never been recovered.
6QgY TIL that the military allows off-shore troops to drink (on base) at the age of 18.
DQdnP TIL the Philippine Span Asia Carrier Corporation holds the record for the deadliest peacetime maritime disaster (MV Dona Paz in 1987 - 4385 dead) before having four more of its ships capsize and total at least 1461 more deaths with hundreds more missing. The shipping line still operates today.
mG9Y TIL that in 19th century England, a man by the name of Jack Black was an expert rat catcher. When he caught rats of unusual colour, he would breed them and sell the well bred rats to nobility. Even Queen Victoria kept a pet rat or two.