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TIL: The creator of the GTA Franchise also created Lemmings

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b9yBp TIL that in 1890 William Morrison invented the first successful practical electric automobile in the United States.
yVMVw TIL that prior to founding the Heaven’s Gate cult, Marshall Applewhite was a teacher in the music department at the University of St. Thomas, a choral director, and a performer with the Houston Grand Opera.
GAWMg TIL: Extra organs and body parts are more common than many people realise with extra nipples and teeth among the most common.
Vrvk TIL that the Nazi’s were staunch animal rights activists with major efforts to limit hunting and general animal cruelty. Göring, in particular, was a professed animal lover who proclaimed bans on both vivisection(Nazi Germany was the first country in the world to do so) and the shoeing of horses.
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