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TIL Grand Theft Auto was influenced by Pac-man

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4XP9J TIL of the Association of German National Jews, a Jewish organisation that supported Hitler and the Nazi party until it was declared illegal, dissolved and their founder imprisoned in one of the earliest concentration camps.
VMNW8 TIL that Peter Gabriel intended for the 1986 song "In Your Eyes" to be the last track on his album "So", but due to the prominent bass line and the limitations of vinyl records, it had to be placed earlier on the record. This was rectified on the CD release of the album.
4kLZb TIL: Impressed with his energy and ability to do the splits, the owner of the Oakland A's hired an 11-year old named Stanley Burrell as a batboy and personal play-by-play announcer. A's player Reggie Jackson gave the kid a nickname, Hammer, who would later become MC Hammer.
x6aR7 TIL that Jeff Cohen, who played Chunk in The Goonies (1985), is now a Hollywood lawyer and actually negotiated the contract of his former Goonies co-star Ke Huy Quan (played Data in Goonies) for his casting in Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)
Wknw9 TIL The Original Rudolph & Santa Puppets from 1964 were sold at auction for $368K to an anonymous bidder who subsequently donated them to the Atlanta Center for Puppetry Arts Museum