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TIL that actually men's genes create the placenta
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TIL Activision proposed a collaboration with Nintendo to create a brand new franchise exclusive to their systems. Nintendo declined. That franchise was Skylanders.
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TIL that a man named Oswald can be heard only at Embankment station saying "mind the gap". In 2012 they were planning on changing all voiceovers but decided not to at this station when Oswalds wife told them that he had passed away in 2007. She loved listening to him when on the way to work.
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TIL Alec Guinness agreed to be in Star Wars (Obi-Wan Kenobi) only after his initial salary was doubled, and that he would receive 2.25% of all gross royalties paid to George Lucas, and never have to make a publicity appearance.
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TIL the phrase “revenge is a dish best served cold” expresses the sentiment that revenge that is delayed, and executed well after the heat of anger has dissipated, is more satisfying than revenge taken as an immediate act of rage.
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TIL that during World War II a Dutch minesweeper evaded the Japanese for eight days disguised as an island. The crew covered the decks in cut trees and painted exposed surfaces to look like rocks. They moved only at night and anchored closed to shore by day, eventually escaping to Australia.