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TIL that Terry Pratchett was a Skyrim and Oblivion modder

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lGpN TIL that the company that created Zyklon B, the gas that was used to kill millions of Jews in the Holocaust, still exists as a pest control company.
gMad4 TIL before his death, Fidel Castro's last wish was to avoid being a "personality cult"; because of this, Cuba prohibits the use of Castro's name in the names of "institutions, parks, streets and other public places, as well as any honorary titles or medals."
09LN TIL that in 2009, Chinese press agencies spoke about a Swedish town called “Chako Paul City”. Men were allegedly banned and all 25,000 residents were sex-craving females who often turned to lesbianism. Although the town didn’t exist, millions of Chinese men still flocked Swedish tourist-companies.
Wkl09 TIL That the early models of the M-16 rifle were so prone to failures and stoppages that a maintenance comic book was issued to troops in 1969.
xV9pg TIL about Dr. Carlo Urbani who first identified the SARS coronavirus, is credited with triggering the rapid response that helped bring the outbreak to an end, and lost his own life to the virus just one month later.