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TIL Before his arrest in 2012, Kim Dotcom was the world’s number one-ranked Modern Warfare 3 player out of more than 15 million online players.

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jm6v TIL Katherine Hepburn only drank water throughout The African Queen production as a protest of Humphrey Bogart’s alcoholism. However, most of the cast and crew became sick from the water and only Bogart was unaffected because he only drank whiskey. Thank you r/movies
pYA9G TIL Puyi, the Last Emperor of China, passed away in what was then called “Beijing Hospital of Anti-Imperialism”
ANZDa TIL there was once a project to build a canal across Florida to shorten the route between the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. It was about half completed when President Nixon cancelled it for environmental reasons.
GA5w7 TIL of a disgruntled designer for SimCopter (1996) that created an Easter Egg that would spawn "shirtless men in Speedo trunks who hugged and kissed each other" in great numbers on certain dates, such as Friday the 13th. But the RNG he created for it malfunctioned, leading them to appear frequently
J1pbj TIL when a peanut plant is pollinated, the flower loses its petals. The bare flower bud hangs from the stem and grows down toward the ground until it penetrates the soil. Once it reaches the appropriate depth, it becomes a peanut