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5YoQp TIL that 2014, a famously terrible year for video games, was the first year since 1983 where not a single video game was considered one of the all time greats. The requirement for this certification was appearing on at least six "best of all time" lists by different publications and journalists.
nMLb TIL Thad Roberts, a NASA intern, spent 7 years in federal prison after having sex with his girlfriend on a bed full of stolen moon rocks.
VMYrQ TIL that the actor that played Anakin in Episode 1 quit acting as a result of being bullied for his role in the movie, eventually leading to him being placed in psychiatric care after crashing his car during a high speed police chase.
rLvd TIL of Unit 731, a covert Japanese research group that carried out human experimentation during WWII to study chemical and biological warfare. The are considered to be responsible for some of the worst war crimes in history for the tens of thousand who died during the experiments.
9YnJr TIL that during the peak of the cold war, one of the tasks given to Niel Armstrong was to place two Soviet medals on the moon to honour their fallen Soviet competitors.