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TIL of John Nash ( Portrayed by Russell Crowe in movie 'A Beautiful Mind') rejection of a long standing 2 century Economic Theory by Adam Smith. It lead him to win the Nobel Prize in 1994 for his own Game Theory. He got the idea with his friends in a bar with 4 average brunette & 1 pretty blonde.
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TIL of a fan campaign to get Donald Glover the lead in "Amazing Spider-Man." It failed, but his character on Community wore Spidey PJs as a nod. That episode inspired a Marvel writer to create Miles Morales, the first Black Spider-Man. Glover went on to play Miles' uncle in "Spider-Man: Homecoming"
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TIL Emperor I Ferdinand of Austria had 20 seizures per day, and could not speak coherently. The only intelligible sentence he ever spoke during his 13 year reign was: “I am the emperor, and I want dumplings!”
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TIL that there is a Gary Gygax memorial where people ask to have their dice blessed by the spirit of the man who created D&D
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TIL Ralph Lazo was the only non-Japanese American who voluntarily relocated to a World War II Japanese American internment camp. He was 17 years old and spent two years in internment.