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TIL that on Halloween in 2008 Doritos released a horror game called Hotel 626 that you could only play from 6pm to 6am and would call you in the middle of the night to scare you

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AVGl TIL Robert Rodriguez started receiving phone calls at random hours of the day from Danny Trejo, trying to convince him to make the Machete film. Robert asked why Danny can’t just send a text message instead of constantly calling, to which Trejo replied: “Machete don’t text.”
JYvrv TIL DC Comic's Watchmen was originally intended to use existing heroes from a company DC had just purchased. DC liked the proposal for the Watchmen but didn't want their new characters killed or made into villains. The Watchmen creative team reworked the Charlton heroes into similar substitutes.
Lx59 TIL that a gargoyle can only be called that name if it has a spout and was created to divert water away from the building. Non-functioning, ornamental ones should be called a chimera, grotesque, or boss.
9YGlr TIL that, as of 2010, Paul McCartney was making $400,000 to $600,000 a year from "Wonderful Christmastime"
wLeVo TIL of Tsujigiri or 'crossroad killing' the practice whereby a Samurai would test the sharpness of a new katana by attacking a random passerby.