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TIL A grown man hunted down and attacked a child who killed him several time in Call of Duty

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WkMVY TIL that Mark Hamill cited his disappointment in the US government's constant state of war as inspiration for Luke Skywalker's hermit personality, as an event in life that can destroy even the most hopeful person's optimism.
P1WO TIL during a deadly 2002 bridge collapse in Oklahoma, a convicted felon impersonating an Army Captain took control of the disaster scene for two days
xQgo TIL a drunk Russian man passed out drunk only to find himself waking up at a morgue. At his own ‘funeral’. He then proceeded to drink vodka with his friends who were supposed to be mourning him.
4xP5 TIL that George Washington and the Marquis of Lafayette were so close that they were like father and son. The relationship between the childless American and fatherless Frenchman was vital for the American Revolution. Lafayette named a son George Washington Lafayette.
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