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TIL that the original Lemmings was created by DMA Design (later Rockstar North), who would go on to create the Grand Theft Auto franchise.

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e0l85 TIL Current WWE Wrestler Jeff Hardy and former wrestler Mick Foley have agreed to donate their brains for concussion research after death
mBZp TIL author Christopher Hitchens was called to the Vatican to give evidence against Mother Teresa’s beatification. He said, “It was by talking to her that I discovered, and she assured me, that she wasn’t working to alleviate poverty. She was working to expand the number of Catholics.”
wJx6 TIL that synchronized swimmers have an unusually high rate of concussions for athletes, basically as a result of kicking each other in the head.
ZdaR TIL: The original version of “Ain’t No Sunshine” by Bill Withers did not chart on the UK Singles Chart until 2009, 38 years after its release.
4kewN TIL that during prohibition, moonshiners would wear 'cow shoes' to disguise their footprints.