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TIL The Flintstones had a Cigarette Commercial in the 60's

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jN5JQ TIL that the last game ever released for the PS3 was FIFA 19
mEZp TIL Lybian rebels would call in air strikes by using coordinates from Google Earth and Tweet them at NATO from their cell phones.
OGY1e TIL Al Capone was only 33 when he was locked away for tax evasion and developed neurosyphilis, leading to his death at 48. Eliot Ness was 27 when he formed the Untouchables--he died in a state of financial ruin in his 50s, likely hastened by his heavy drinking in his later life
8a6Yb TIL: In 1944 Lex Luthor was the first character in a comic book (and one of the first in fiction) to use an atomic bomb. The United States Department of War asked this story line be delayed from publication, which it was until 1946, to protect the secrecy of the Manhattan Project.
d86lE TIL Batman saves Rachel Dawes (Katie Holmes) and a "Little Boy" at the end of Batman Begins. That little boy is Jack Gleeson who later played King Joffrey Baratheon in Game of Thrones.