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TIL that Mortal Kombat character Noob Saibot is a mix of the last names of the creator of the series in reverse: Noob (Ed Boon) and Saibot (John Tobias)

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XE7lD TIL when the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre in 1911, the empty space it left on the wall attracted more visitors than the painting had.
aB7b TIL that three of the actors who played Nazis on the WWII sitcom “Hogan’s Heroes” were German Jews who had escaped from Nazi Germany. Two of them spent time in concentration camps, and another French Jewish actor also spent time in a camp.
WXoX TIL that a man successfully “foreclosed” on a Wells Fargo office because they failed to respond to his letters of inquiry and then ignored his $1,000 small claims judgement.
mn7x TIL Millionaire Harris Rosen gave a Florida neighborhood free daycare and scholarships to all high school graduates. This raised the graduation rate from 25% to 100% and cut crime in half.
epO86 TIL American chocolate tastes like vomit or spoiled butter. Butyric acid was added to the Hershey “variety” as a preservative, and it’s still used today because many Americans are now accustomed to the vomit flavor.