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LQeb9 TIL that in 1985, video game publisher Firebird released “Don’t Buy This,” a compilation of the five worst games ever submitted to them. Beyond mocking the developers, they also disowned their copyright to the game and encouraged buyers to pirate it.
v1vL8 TIL in 1968 over 6,000 sheep died in Utah after a mishap at a chemical weapons test range some 50 miles away. A cannister aboard a spray plane malfunctioned, dispersing the gas to a height of 1,400 ft instead of the intended 150 ft.
J1Nb1 TIL Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer attempted to erase Gaslight (1940) from existence as to prevent it from competing with their remake of Gaslight when it eventually released in 1944.
jkxN TIL in 2006, a man disappeared from a Columbus bar with security footage of him entering the building but no security footage exiting it. To this day he has yet to be found.
MkEm TIL in 1972, natural nuclear fission reactors were discovered in Gabon, Africa. They operated for a few hundred thousand years and generated an average of 100kW of power.