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TIL that Philip K. Dick never saw the completed version of “Blade Runner” and Ridley Scott never finished reading “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”

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VBpGD TIL One of the reasons that Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton Had their famous duel was because Burr wanted to turn the Manhattan Company into a bank. After the death of Hamilton he did just that helping to start the Manhattan Bank which later on became JPMorgan Chase.
5Ylpk TIL the FBI mounted a 4-year-long undercover surveillance operation to nab Jared "The Subway Guy" Fogle, after he made some inappropriate comments about middle school girls to a female reporter
wavP TIL The voice of Bart Simpson is an evangelical Scientologist, and has been known to use her iconic Bart Simpson voice as part of a robocall encouraging people to attend a Scientology event in Los Angeles.
yVdRJ TIL of The Hawk’s Nest Tunnel Disaster where 100’s of workers died from silicosis after being forced to mine silica without the proper protective equipment. It was the deadliest industrial incident in US history. The site was owned by Union Carbide Corp.
j6L1N TIL only four video games in North America have ever been given an "Adults Only" (AO) rating by the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) solely due to extreme levels of violence: the canceled Thrill Kill (1998) and the initial cuts of The Punisher (2005), Manhunt 2 (2007), & Hatred (2015).