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TIL a former lawyer, Jack Thompson. Was barred and fined $100,000 for numerously linking the Grand Theft Auto series to crimes with very little or no evidence at all.

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VBXEB TIL of William Rankin, one of only two people to ever survive falling all the way through a thunderstorm cloud. He would fall for almost 40 minutes while suffering frost bite, welts and other serious injuries
yQB5e TIL In 1915, Kulbir Thapa was the first Nepalese Gurkha to receive the Victoria Cross. Thapa carried two wounded Gurkhas through No-Man’s-Land despite being wounded himself. When he went back a third time, German soldiers stopped firing and began clapping, allowing him to walk back to his own line.
dDYpZ TIL that in the first Super Mario Bros, Mario was originally going to ride a rocket and carry guns.
E6Jw TIL the original Doom outsold the Windows OS. Id was only 12 employees strong at the time.
wLPRo TIL that the reason large cuts of meat like port and brisket "stall" (stay at the same temperature, sometimes for hours) while being smoked is because they are "sweating" and water evaporation is cooling them as fast as heat is being added.