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TIL The Sims was actually meant as a satire of U.S. consumer culture and creator Will Wright was inspired to create a "virtual doll house" after losing his home during the Oakland firestorm of 1991.

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ZxnQ TIL when the Beatles played Canada, Ringo Starr was accompanied onstage by a bodyguard and police sharpshooters because he received death threats from anti-Semites. To which Ringo replied, “Some people decided to make an example of me, as an English Jew. The one major fault is I’m not Jewish.”
n6Pb TIL Elvis claimed that when he was 8 years old, he was telepathically contacted by two alien beings who showed him his future. Reportedly, the aliens showed Elvis an image of “a man in a white jumpsuit singing to a crowd,” but the eight year old Elvis didn’t understand what it meant.
mxvXv TIL that despite taking in more than $500 million in donations, the American Red Cross only built six houses in Haiti after Hurricane Matthew
x6511 TIL that The Philippines consists of 7,641 islands, about 2,000 of which are inhabited that form an archipelago.
RX41 TIL that, in 1987, a construction worker in the U.S. state of Maine became the 5th Earl of Wharncliffe in England upon the death of his father’s second cousin, the 4th Earl.