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TIL that Resident Evil 1 writer Kenichi Iwao conceived of Chris's surname Redfield under the presumption that it's a fictional name entirely of his original creation that nobody has the real world until 2020 when he found out about the then CDC director Dr Robert Redfield in a news report

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Qvgd TIL there was a traffic jam in Beijing, China that lasted 9 days and 100km
R7rZ1 TIL President JFK had an affair with a 19 year old White House intern, including one instance where he dared her successfully to perform oral sex on his special assistant, Dave Powers
woX5P TIL that the house of three young boys suffering from HIV was set ablaze after the school board was prohibited from denying them admission.
rP4 TIL British bombers bombed wooden German decoy airplanes 1944. With wooden decoy bombs.
LYX9 TIL that California, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin have ruled that “Ladies’ Nights” are against the law because they fall under gender discrimination