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TIL: Pat Roach who played a bad guy in all three original Indiana Jones movies was also a famous British pro wrestler who wrestled almost until the end of his life.

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RoLw TIL when the Roman emperor Galba was assassinated, 120 people claimed they’d done it, in order to win favor with his successor. The successor died too, and HIS successor had all 120 executed
loQ9a TIL: While working at Atari, Steve Wozniak designed the driving arcade game GRAN TRACK 10. Years later he found a pizza parlor that offered a free pizza for anyone who could get a score over 36. After winning two pizzas the restaurant removed the game.
vPD5j TIL The “Grave with the Hands” in Roermond, Netherlands are two tombstones on opposite sides of a wall connected by two hands holding each other. This is for a Protestant/Catholic couple who had to be buried in separate sections of the cemetery.
p8nR4 TIL that Coca-Cola is the number one soft drink in the world in every country except for four countries, one being Cuba, another is North Korea, and the last is Myanmar, where they just entered the market. The final and most interesting is Scotland where Irn Bru reigns supreme.
yGL8 TIL The Mondragon Corporation is run democratically; its workers collectively choose, hire and fire their directors as well as decide the wage ratios between the top-paid and lowest-paid workers. It has been hailed as “a working model of an alternative to the capitalist mode of production.”