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TIL Vin Diesel is a huge fan of Dungeons & Dragons, having played it for over 20 years including nights off when he was a bouncer, and wrote the foreward to the commemorative book “30 Years of Adventure: A Celebration of Dungeons & Dragons”.

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1aVrX TIL 40 years before James Cameron's "Avatar" was released, the "Noon Universe" Russian sci-fi novels were published, set on a forest planet called Pandora in the 22nd century, inhabited by humanoids called Nave (compared to the "Na'vi" in Avatar).
Bggmr TIL that the packaging colour for air-dropped humanitarian ration packs had to be changed from yellow to salmon after someone realised that the same shade of yellow was also used for air-dropped cluster bombs.
grvEy TIL that Octopolis and Octlantis are two separate non-human underwater settlements engineered by gloomy octopuses
ZmkQ TIL that in American Sign Language, the sign for milk is pretending to squeeze an udder, and the sign for pasteurised milk is to pretend to squeeze an udder while it moves “past-your-eyes”
J1JV1 TIL this date in 1857, my Great Uncle, a Mormon leader, began distributing children under the age of 8 to families in central Utah to adopt. He and his other Mormon friends had slit the throats of all the other children and adults.