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TIL Matt Damon wanted The Bourne Conspiracy video game to be a puzzle game, and refused to lend his voice talent to the game when it was turned into a shooter

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OGgG4 TIL historians don't know why important warlord Ivar the Boneless was called "boneless." Theories range from him losing a leg to impotence & beyond.
4X6W5 TIL: Donkey Kong not developed by Nintendo but rather a subcontracting company that also made Sega's Congo Bongo and Zaxxon. They successfully sued after Nintendo use their source code to create Donkey Kong Jr. without them.
R7xZQ TIL that behind the feeling of "anger" is always any sort of pain
awPEN TIL that there is only one Jew left in Afghanistan, Zabulon Simentov, who runs his own synagogue. The second-to-last Jew, who hated Simentov, also ran his own synagogue. The two hated interacting with each other so much that the Taliban released them after they kept fighting in custody.
MZgB TIL That the during the official opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge in 1932 a man on horseback cut the ribbon with his sword, upstaging the senior politician who was supposed to cut it.