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TIL G.I. Joe relaunched in 1982 because Hasbro and Marvel's CEOs met at adjoining urinals during a charity event.

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aEEN TIL of Piper Bill Millin who played the bagpipes as British Commandos landed at Sword Beach on D Day. He was told by captured German snipers later on that he was spared because they thought he was crazy.
xVRR1 TIL Brian Jacques, author of the Redwall Series, was originally a milkman that volunteered to read to blind students along his route. Dissatisfied with the selection of children’s books available, he decided to write his own and became a best-selling author.
eL75 TIL in 2013 a NJ city councilwoman was tricked into believing the Blue Waffle Disease was real and a threat to her city, so she asked the city council what they were going to do about it.
V9EB TIL That originally to be kept secret until 2029, all existing documents related to the John F. Kennedy assassination will be publicly disclosed by October 2017.
1a6vV Almost nothing looks more orderly than chess pieces before a match starts. The first move, however, begins a spiral into chaos. After both players move, 400 possible board setups exist. After the second pair of turns, there are 197,742 possible games, and after three moves, 121 million. At every turn, players chart a progressively more distinctive path, and each game evolves into one that has probably never been played before.