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TIL That there was a Lego MMO that was cancelled because inappropriate players kept creating penis' and despite the team's best efforts, their software was unable to keep up with the detection of them.

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j69OR TIL Egyptian hieroglyphs from 2690 BCE constitute the earliest known complete sentence and is found in the tomb of Seth-Peribsen (2nd Dynasty), Umm El Qa'ab. The sentence refers to the entombed king's father and translates as, "He has united the Two Lands for his son, Dual King Peribsen."
4k4ag TIL: During WW2 the nazis tried to draft Michael Ende, the author of The Neverending Story. The 14 year old Ende tore up his draft papers and joined the Bavarian resistance instead
kJYme TIL about Lettice Fisher who worked to reform UK laws such as the "Bastardy Acts" in order to challenge the stigma associated with single parent families, and to provide them with support
OJEL TIL Kevin Smith protested his own movie, Dogma, with a Christian group
8e6RK TIL that in 2014, Red Bull reached a $13 million settlement to resolve two class action lawsuits for falsely claiming that ingredients in the drink were performance enhancing without scientific studies to prove it.