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TIL EA hired people to protest against their own games

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RGY6 TIL Shakespeare’s name is spelt differently in all six of his known signatures, and none of them is spelt ‘William Shakespeare’.
wLEdo TIL that blue eyes don’t have blue pigment and are instead blue for the same reason that water and the sky are blue: they scatter light so that only blue light reflects out
OWrY TIL that the longest prison sentence ever received was 141,078 years, handed out to Thai national Chamoy Thipyaso for her part in a Ponzi scheme that defrauded 16,000 investors.
MLJm TIL that, when the bible references a person putting their hand under someone else’s thigh when making an oath, they were actually cupping–and swearing on–their testicles. Evidently this custom is what led to the term “testify”, being derived from “testicles”.
aw9Ab TIL that Eddie Van Halen's famous red/white/black guitar is called the "Frankenstrat" because Van Halen replaced the bridge, neck, pickups, controls and gave it a custom paint job. It was a (successful) attempt to combine the sound of a classic Gibson guitar with the physical attributes of a Fender