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TIL When Anthony Hopkins’ agent rang him up in London to tell him that he was sending him a script called “The Silence of the Lambs”, Hopkins immediately thought he might be going up for a children’s movie.

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6EYLJ TIL that during WWII, French-Moroccan soldiers kidnapped, defiled and/or killed 2,000 - 60,000 Italian female civilians in what is considered one of the worst war crimes of the war
P6YE TIL the tiny island of Nauru became the world’s richest country per capita in the 60s by mining its phosphate reserves. The country blew it on spending & bad investments (e.g.“Leonardo the musical”). It’s now the ~135th richest country, with 40% diabetes rate and a wrecked environment due to mining.
Q9W6 TIL 22 years ago this week a Stardust Casino employee walked out of the hotel with $500,000 and was never seen again.
695aW TIL that there has not been a video game released with an Adults Only ESRB rating in 8 years, and there have only been 26 released AO games in history
5YaLn TIL that the first computer game was Nim, released in April 1940 on a computer called the Nimatron, which weighed over a ton. The designer was a nuclear physicist and quantum mechanics pioneer who later participated in the Manhattan Project. 100,000 games were played, with the computer winning ~90%