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TIL the ship used in Pirates of the Caribbean was sunk in Hurricane Sandy

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d8o6Q TIL that the team behind The Sims had originally decided to leave same-sex relationships out of the game until a newbie on the team by the name of Patrick J. Barrett III coded all basic interactions of the game due to one of his senior team members being on vacation
6EpKw TIL: Top 40 singer and outspoken conservative, Anita Bryant, was in the middle of a press conference on “doing away with homosexuals” when a man hit her in the face with a banana cream pie on live TV. Bryant’s response, “Well, at least it was a fruit pie.”
PngL TIL that during the Nazi occupation of France, Hitler did not destroy the Canadian Vimy Memorial and told the Allies that it remained intact, as he admired the peaceful nature of the sculpture
16eDO TIL that Catholic communion wafers (the Eucharist) are not permitted to come in gluten free varieties via decree from Pope Francis
QJ5KE TIL: It would take 176 hours to charge an iPhone 11 Pro with the electricity generated by the average human brain. On average, at any given moment, your brain’s electricity is outputting roughly 0.085 Watts of power.