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TIL that Rob Riggle was an active marine until he retired today

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rNnYe TIL Anti-Video Game Activist Jack Thompson wrote a letter to Wendy’s CEO in 2007, demanding to halt the Kids’ Meal promotion of the Nintendo Wii, because Nintendo announced the launch of Manhunt 2 for the Wii, as it would promote violence to America’s youth.
JYArm TIL the oldest monument in Paris is over 3,000 years old. The Ottoman ruler of Egypt gave a 75 ft, 250 ton ancient Egyptian obelisk to France in exchange for a mechanical clock in 1833. The obelisk was placed in the center of the Place de la Concorde where it stands today.
xVXVk TIL the expression “turn a blind eye” comes from Admiral Nelson, who was blind in one eye; when he was signaled to stop attacking a fleet of ships, Nelson raised the telescope to his blind eye and said: “I have only one eye, and I have a right to be blind sometimes… I really do not see the signal!”
lkjG TIL dolphin communication follows a linguistic rule that unites human languages, called Zipf’s law. The law states that the frequency of a language’s common words follow a trend — the most common word in a language appears twice as often as the second most common word.
r7Xw TIL that a German art student illuminated and bound the entire Silmarillion by hand like a 21st-century monastic scribe as his final project.