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TIL When the video game 'D' was finished and approved by the publisher, the director Kenji Eno swapped it with a much more violent version he had created in secret when hand-delivering the master version to the manufacturer.

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LLWP TIL that women often get hiccups when they are having a stroke
VMva0 TIL that in India an estimated 1.2 million people have died of snake bites since 2000.
XERNQ TIL Fiat's Lingotto factory was built in 1923 as five stories with a racetrack on top. With an upward assembly line, production began at the bottom floor and progressed upward until completion. When a Fiat finished its climb through 16,000,000 sq. feet, it exited by roof and was raced by employees.
kEKm TIL Apollo Mission astronauts have nearly five times higher mortality from cardiovascular disease than other astronauts due to exposure to deep-space radiation.
Ol6X TIL midway through the Great Irish Famine (1845–1849), a group of Choctaw Indians collected $710 and sent it to help the starving victims. It had been just 16 years since the Choctaw people had experienced the Trail of Tears, and faced their own starvation.