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TIL: There was a popular game in the 90's that was free to play & seemed to span globally.

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Bg46x TIL that the Nation of Islam, the Muslim sect that Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X followed, teaches that the original humans were Black and spoke Arabic, white people were created by an evil scientist named Yakub, and the founder W. Fard Muhammad will return in a mothership to commit a racial cleansing.
8exQ8 TIL about Turbonique, a company that marketed rocket and turbine engines to drag racers. In 1965, a VW Beetle fitted with a Turbonique TB-28 Drag Axle ran a 9.2 second quarter mile before going airborne at 183 mph.
rRKNx TIL Rick Moranis retired from acting after his wife died of liver cancer so he could raise his children
XE4WX TIL that upon imprisonment American Psychologist Timothy Leary was given psychological tests designed to aid placing inmates in jobs that were best suited to them. Leary himself had designed a few of them and used that knowledge to get a low-security gardening assignment, and escaped.
E1l7P TIL I learned that nobody in the Union army wanted to fire the Williams Cleaner Bullet. It was less accurate than the normal Minie', more expensive to manufacture and it did not clean the barrel at all. Soldiers just threw them away or kept them as a last reserve. The Bullet Nobody Wanted to Fire.