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TIL Obsidian was denied a bonus from completion of Fallout New Vegas because the game scored an 84 on Metacritic (one point under the contractual 85)

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ngbW TIL that Beck wrote and composed the music played by the fictional band Sex Bob-omb in the movie “Scott Pilgrim vs. The World”
rwEo TIL An American has been held in a Dubai prison for 8 months without trial for uploading a spoof video on youtube.
D1E6Y TIL - Battle of Machias was an early naval engagement of the American Revolutionary War a small town militia captured an armed sloop and two merchant ships. Two years later the British tried it again with 1,000 men but were beaten off.
0wY9M TIL Police in Anderson, California issued and trained their officers to use nunchucks
y1RX TIL A black cop infiltrated the KKK in 1978. He rose through the ranks to become the head of the local chapter. He was able to gather intelligence by pretending to be a white supremacist on the phone and other forms of correspondence. He sent a white officer in his place for any in-person meetings.