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TIL IO Interactive secured the rights to make the next James Bond video game by simply presenting a Hitman game level with Daniel Craig's head replacing Agent 47's head.

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womLW TIL of Nevil Maskelyne a magician and inventor who in 1903, publicly hacked into a demonstration of Marconi’s supposedly secure telegraph, and began broadcasting insulting Morse code messages to the audience.
7raBb TIL that at the end credits of Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, the weird mumbling you hear before it goes off is actually a guy saying "No, no, this is the end of the show, you're watching it backwards!" being played reversed
yLap TIL a single “panini” is actually called a panino. Only multiple sandwiches are panini.
e7Ln TIL Coke was for white customers only, while Pepsi was marketed to black customers
xVxx1 TIL a group of British schoolchildren ran their own international arms dealership during their lunch break. They bought and sold military weaponry to armies and militias around the world. This was 100% legal.