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TIL when Dungeons & Dragons was released, various groups believed it was a front for murderous Satanists. This lead to Tom Hanks’ first starring role in the TV propaganda movie Mazes and Monsters, in which he becomes his D&D character and stabs a hobo in Manhattan because he thought it was a goblin.

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0wOxR TIL that the higher a cat falls from, the more likely they are to survive.
R5nMw TIL that Natalie Imbruglia’s Torn was a cover of a cover; it was first recorded in 1993 by Danish singer Lis Sørensen, then by the original songwriters’ band Ednaswap 1994, then by Trine Rein in 1996, before becoming a massive international hit with Natalie’s 1997 version
X04jE TIL That Aspirin was initially Byer's trademark name for acetylsalicylic acid that scientists at the Bayer company began studying in 1897. They received a patent for Aspirin in 1900.
PYAJV TIL About Frank Foley- the “British Schindler”. An intelligence officer in Berlin before WWII, he worked as a passport officer and is credited with saving “tens of thousands” of Jews by stamping as many of their passports as he could. He also went into internment camps and hid Jews in his home.