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TIL that the “He Who Has No Life” character that terrorizes the South Park children in the episode “Make Love, Not Warcraft” was based on video game project manager Joey Ray Hall

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7ABL TIL Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons, was once subjected to a strip-search by airport security who considered him a suspicious character. As he was led away, a little boy said, “Ha, ha!” like Nelson on The Simpsons. Groening found the boy’s mockery the most irritating thing about the incident.
DprP TIL Herschel Walker was a Heisman winning running back, member of an Olympic bob sled team, ballet performer, professional mixed martial artist, successful businessman, and almost predictably suffers from multiple personality disorder.
1mjP TIL Stephen King sells the rights to some of his short stories for $1 so that film students can use them to make movies. He calls them his ‘Dollar Babies.’
neNP TIL in the UK in 2009, a leaflet was issued by the National Health Service in Sheffield carrying the slogan, “an orgasm a day keeps the doctor away”.
RN8l TIL In 2007, according to a Harvard research group, 62% of all bankruptcies in the US were caused by medical problems (this number was closer to 8% in 1981). Of those bankruptcies, 60% had private insurance.