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TIL Daniel Stern famed Home Alone baddie is also an accomplished sculptor.

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7rMnx TIL that Commodus, a Roman emperor often portrayed in media as vile and cruel, would shoot hundreds of animals with arrows and javelins every morning, and fought as a gladiator every afternoon, winning all the fights. He was strangled by his wrestler partner and declared a public enemy post death.
b9Eg9 TIL Italian dictator Benito Mussolini had a pet lion
bQQa TIL of “rubberbanding”, a way video games adjust difficulty. In Mario Kart and other racing games computer vehicles behind the player become much faster, and those ahead become much slower, as if connected by a rubber band with the player.
N15b TIL of Edith Head, who won 8 oscars for best costume design and was the inspiration for Edna Mode in The Incredibles
GAn0g TIL DecTalk, the text-to-speech software that Stephen Hawking used, is notoriously difficult to get legally since it has been discontinued. This is part of the reason for Moonbase Alpha's (2012) popularity, since it utilizes a modified version of the software.