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TIL that if players pirated the video game “Game Dev Tycoon” - a game where the goal is to create and sell video games for profit - their in-game games get massively pirated which renders it unplayable.

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GYWDg TIL that formed FBI director Louis Freeh once said, “Ask the American public if they want an FBI wiretap and they’ll say, ‘No’. If you ask them do they want a feature on their phone that helps the FBI find their missing child they’ll say, ‘Yes’.”
gZpb TIL in 1984, James Huberty called a mental health center seeking help. Because he did not state it was an emergency, his call was not returned. The next day he walked into a crowded McDonald’s in San Ysidro and began shooting, killing 21 and injuring 19 more.
eK1g TIL- that some of the production of Breaking Bad and The Avengers happened on the same studio lot and Samuel Jackson showed up to the set of Breaking Bad dressed as Nick Fury asking to be an extra in the background.
eknL TIL Gregory Peck turned down top billing for ‘Roman Holiday’,convincing executives to give it to Audrey Hepburn saying : “I’m smart enough to know this girl’s going to win the Oscar in her first picture, and I’m going to look like a damned fool if her name is not up there on top with mine.”
lD9a TIL Luc Besson, who made Taken, Lucy, and The Fifth Element was in a relationship with a 15 year old girl that gave birth to his kid. She ended up playing Diva Plavalaguna in The Fifth Element.