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TIL that the company that produced the original Tomb Raider game wanted to include a nude cheat for Lara Croft but Toby Gard the lead designer refused to do this

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Brx0b TIL that hen filming the underwater scene in Alien Resurrection, Winona Ryder faced a challenge, as she nearly drowned as a kid. Instead of using a double, knowing it would be obvious, she faced her fear and filmed it, but suffered from anxiety later on
Lra0 TIL JD Salinger never relinquished rights for audiobooks. The only legal way to obtain a Catcher in the Rye audiobook, is to have “permission” from a physician or ophthalmologist to listen to a “legal audiobook” recorded for the Library of Congress, who can do so by law, but only for the blind.
WErd TIL that Donald Trump paid off a man’s mortgage after he helped change flat tires in Trump’s stranded Limo.
kjy1 TIL both Churchill and Charles de Gaulle considered WW1 and WW2 to be a single conflict, called the Second Thirty Years War
wRoJ TIL that Iqbal Masih was sold into bondage by his debt-ridden family aged four and escaped when he was 10, after which he went to school and helped 3,000 other Pakistani children escape bonded labor. A symbol of child labor in the developing world, he was shot and killed in 1995, aged only 12.