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TIL that CS 1.6 has a map called cs_italy2, huge surprise to me considering I was a fervent CS player and love the original map.

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loZvG TIL That 50% of all material used in reactors in the United States to generate electricity comes from recycled nuclear warheads. 45% of that total are Soviet warheads.
vGJ8 TIL in 1999 in a civil case conducted by the King family, the jury ruled that Martin Luther King Jr. had been a victim of assassination by a conspiracy involving the Memphis police and as well as federal agencies.
nW6RB TIL that Lionsgate wanted Leonardo DiCaprio to play Patrick Bateman in American Psycho
KOBea TIL a week after The Shining premiered in theaters, director Stanley Kubrick cut a final scene in a hospital, where Wendy and Danny learn that Jack's body could not be found. The scene was subsequently physically cut out of prints by projectionists and returned to the studio by order of Warner Bros.
ae8L TIL McDonald’s ran a McResource website and phone line, giving advice to employees to do things like return unopened Christmas gifts to get out of debt and assiting them in applying for food stamps.