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TIL Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt developed a card-based method for promoting creativity and brainstorming called "Oblique Strategies," which would give generic aphorisms/instructions to apply to any creative process

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OGapY TIL Co-Creator of Lobo, Roger Slifer, was also a co-producer of the English localisation of Yu-Gi-Oh. The card “Slifer the Sky Dragon” was named in his honour by translator Sam Murakami.
6E4VY TIL A woman visited the Gorilla enclosure at the Rotterdam zoo on a near daily basis and smiled at the male, Bokito while staring at him. She was warned not to but kept doing it, claiming Bokito smiled back and that they shared a bond, until one day Bokito escaped and charged her, almost killing her
7rxx TIL - until 1993, in North Carolina, a husband could legally rape his wife under the spousal exemption from rape laws - 33 states still regard spousal rape as a lesser crime.
kBVB TIL Julius Caesar had his facial hairs pulled out one by one by tweezers, rather than trust anyone to use a razor on his throat.
RMMl TIL that most of the musicians heard playing on Michael Jackson’s album “Thriller” were actually members of the band Toto.