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TIL there's a D&D game that's been going on for 40 years. The Dungeon Master became a history professor so he could craft more believable worlds for his game.

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XE1vE TIL The 5 oldest companies, still running, are in Japan, and 52.8% of the worlds 985 oldest companies (that's 520) are in Japan.
0bKM TIL that the Sonic game Shadow The Hedgehog contains profanity, allows Shadow to use assault rifles, and the options to attempt to assassinate the president and aid terrorists in detonating bombs in a major city.
gMo04 TIL During the Iraq-Iran war, Minister of Health Riyadh Hussein suggested Saddam step down temporarily. When no one else supported the idea, Saddam escorted Mr. Hussein to the next room, closed the door, shot him, then returned to the meeting. His widow received his dismembered corpse the next day.
Wknoo TIL of Clifford Johnson who survived the Cocoanut Grove fire and became the most severely burned person to survive his injuries at his time while trying to save his date. 21 months later he would marry his nurse that treated him at the hospital and die in fiery car crash 15 years later.
e0rLk TIL about Stephenson 2-18, which is a red supergiant (RSG) star that has a volume around 10 billion times bigger than the Sun and If placed at the center of the Solar System, its photosphere would engulf the entire orbit of Saturn.