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TIL that it would cost $1064 to buy all additional content released for the Sims 4

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O9gL TIL that the concept of the “rap battle” has existed since the 5th century, where poets would engage in “flyting,” a spoken word event where poets would insult one another in verse. The Norse god Loki is noted as having insulted other gods in verse.
R6n8 TIL a Mossad hit squad once carried out an assassination clad only in briefs. They did this to keep their clothes free of blood. The target was Herberts Cukurs, AKA “The Butcher of Riga”, a Latvian Nazi. In Brazil, he was lured to a house by an undercover Mossad agent, then killed by the hit squad.
KO0G6 TIL Albert Woolson was the last surviving member of the Union Army who served in the American Civil War. He died in 1956 at age 106.
EQk7 TIL that Lawrence Summers used to be the President of Harvard, but was forced to resign following comments he made suggesting that discrimination might not be the main reason men outnumber women in tenured STEM positions at top universities.
KOajQ TIL Steven Spielberg created the Medal of Honor video game franchise. The first title was released in 1999, a year after Saving Private Ryan. Most of the games in the franchise were set during WWII.