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TIL the same Dr. Light who built Megaman is Mario’s family doctor

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jwdv TIL Lavrentiy Beria, head of the NKVD (KGB precursor), abducted, raped and even murdered numerous women. Later, when he was executed, a rag had to be stuffed into his mouth to stop his begging and crying.
wL4B7 TIL Uravan, CO was a mining town that provided uranium to the Manhattan Project. The town was shut down in 1968. Over the next 20 years, Uravan and its contents were completely demolished to decontaminate the area because of radiation.
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4noa TIL that the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, updated his Harvard University alumni listing to include his 8 life sentences as “awards” and his current occupation as “prisoner.”