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TIL that most of the characters in Half life 2 were modeled after real people.

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7W5P TIL there is a house in Warsaw that is 152 centimeters (60 in.) wide, placed in the exact space between two buildings.
aWGo TIL Rick James and his wife kidnapped a 24-year-old girl as a sex slave and torture puppet in 1993
mxjXO TIL while Benjamin Franklin was in Paris during the American Revolution, his secretary was a British spy. The spy used the cover of weekly letters about “gallantry” (exploits with women). He would write in-between the lines in a special ink and leave the letter in a dead drop every Tuesday night.
5NbP TIL The USA has a law that allows citizens to occupy any unclaimed island in the world, as long as there is seabird or bat poop on it
Oo1L6 TIL in pre-industrial times (before electricity) it was normal to get up for a couple of hours in the middle of the night, resume normal activities and then return back to sleep until morning.