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TIL that when Wizards of the Coast bought TSR and D&D, they hired most of TSR's staff and moved them all to Seattle. They helped find new homes, hired movers, and helped those still paying rent in WI and WA. One said Wizards was doing everything but putting them on their backs and carrying them.

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ADwEn TIL In Jurassic park (1993), the insect trapped in amber and which made the cloning of dinosaur possible was actually elephant mosquito. It's the only mosquito that doesn't suck blood, so cloning wasn't actually possible.
AZ5w TIL Women in U.S. military are more likely to be raped by fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire. According to the Department of Defense an estimated 19,000 military personnel are raped every year.
jN6dp "If an asteroid hits the moon, it will just get another crater," says Gareth Wynn-Williams, an astronomer at the University of Hawaii. It would take a moon-size object to move the moon, says Clark Chapman, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute, and most likely the moon wouldn't survive. Hitting it with a much larger, denser object would be like whacking an egg with a golf club.
a8Dwy TIL that in 2012, The Doors' song "Break On Through (To The Other Side)" was played on planet Mars each morning during the NASA Mars Curiosity mission.
bnD7 TIL that every year in the greek town of Vrontados, two rival church congregations perform a “Rocket War” by firing tens of thousands of home-made rockets across town, with the objective of hitting the bell tower of the church of the other side.