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TIL a fan asked the studio making the 2018 Spider-man game on twitter to include a marriage proposal as an easter-egg which they agreed to do. They wrote "Maddie will you marry me?" on a theater marquee in the game but the couple broke up before the game was even released and it is still there.

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p75N TIL in 2004, an activist from The Yes Men falsely claiming to represent Dow Chemicals was interviewed by BBC, claiming Dow had agreed to a $12 billion settlement for victims of the 1984 Bhopal, India chemical disaster (in which 3,000 peopl died). Dow lost $2 billion in the ensuing stock selloff.
rNEly TIL Cleveland Brown QB Frank Ryan won the NFL title in 1964 and earned his Ph.D. from Rice in Mathematics in 1965. During the late 60's he was a Professor at the Case Institute of Technology, and would teach classes in the morning and then attend Football training in the afternoons.
epMGn Today i Learned about "Killer" Jim Miller, an outlaw who reportedly killed over 50 men. During his execution, Miller was reported to have shouted, "Let 'er rip!" and stepped voluntarily off his box to hang.
rR59y TIL A major factor in why people refuse to become organ donors is because the uncomfortable environment at the DMV makes people less willing to be altruistic
9oZr TIL of “The Lipstick Killer”, William Heirens. In the 1940s he was convicted of killing 6-year-old Suzanne Degnan, Frances Brown and Josephine Ross. Heirens got his nickname because he wrote, “For heaven’s sake, catch me before I kill more. I cannot control myself,” on Brown’s wall in lipstick.