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TIL the creator of Shaft was white

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YxYB TIL Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was written during a six-day cocaine high during which he generated sixty thousand words.
w8EM TIL the first version of The Game of Life featured a suicide square.
XgnE TIL of Great-Grandmaster Su Kong, a Shaolin monk with “Werewolf Syndrome” who was famous for battling Japanese pirates and fighting bears in the woods for practice.
rR8jo TIL out of the 1000 oldest companies in the world, more than half of them come from Japan.
vPY4j TIL developing a drug to treating parasitic infections in cattle, the developers, Merck, noticed it prevents human "River Blindness" that can leave entire villages blind. Seeing its importance, Merck's executives decided to distribute the expensive drug for free until the disease was eradicated