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TIL: The creator of the GTA Franchise also created Lemmings

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e0kR4 TIL in 1999, the mummified remains of a pregnant Hispanic woman were found in a drum in the crawl space of a house in NY. She was identified as Reyna Marroquín, a woman who’d vanished in 1969. She’d had an affair with her employer. He killed himself before police could properly question him.
pa4p TIL Nong Yousui from Dahua, China has eyes that can see in pitch black
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