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TIL Grand Theft Auto was influenced by Pac-man

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ejmD TIL the Prime Minister of Hungary during WW2 killed himself rather than be complicit when his country was forced into the Axis
m7JP TIL on the set of the ‘The Six Million Dollar Man’ TV show, while the crew was moving a neon-orange mannequin prop, one of the mannequin’s arms broke off revealing it was a human body. The body was identified as Elmer McCurdy, a criminal who had robbed a train and died in a shoot-out with police.
Gaa5 TIL, in the USA, sticks of butter from the East Coast are different dimensions than butter from the West Coast
oZyr TIL: Empedocles, 5th century Greek philosopher most known for the development of the idea of the Four Elements, also concluded that matter could neither be created nor destroyed, and developed a theory of evolution concluding that form followed function and that the most fit survived.
0ww8y TIL America’s “Time Lord” is Dr. Judah Levine, the guy who sets the time upon which all of our devices are synced. He’s done this job since figuring out how to keep perfect time in 1969.