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TIL that Al Gore’s wife, Tipper Gore, wrote a book and founded an organization that advocated for censoring rock music and cited Dungeons and Dragons as a path leading children to kill.

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xKmw TIL at it’s top speed of 254 MPH, the Bugatti Veyron averages only 3 MPG.
8aGE8 TIL Tom Hanks refused to get paid for his roles in Forrest Gump and Saving Private Ryan, preferring to take percentages of the movies’ worldwide total gross instead. He got almost $60 million from Forrest Gump, and between $30 million and $40 million from Saving Private Ryan.
Lrxv TIL that in the poorest areas of Africa, people wave oiled-up pans in the air, so that Midge Flies stick to it. After catching enough bugs, they are scraped off and cooked into a meatball. Catching the flies with the pan is very entertaining for the kids in the village.
rNN5o Today I learned Obsidian Entertainment (involved in Planescape: Torment, Kotor II, PoE, Fallout series) worked on a prequel game about Snow White and the Seven Dwarves until it was canceled when Disney declared SW 'untouchable'.
0dyw1 TIL Roman specialized slaves, known as alipilarii, were tasked with plucking the hair from armpits and other parts of the body.