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TIL that EA had to replace their cover athlete for ‘NHL 2004’ not once, but twice as their original choice was found to have assaulted a cop and their other choice killed his teammate in a car accident.

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0dRkp TIL of William E. Boeing who dropped out of Yale University in 1903. Boeing founded the United Aircraft & Transport Corp. but in 1934, the Air Mail Act was passed. Boeing was forced to break his company up into 3 separate entities which included 'Boeing' and 'United Airlines.'
dJPQ TIL Disney were planning to turn Discovery Island into a live action experience of the pc game, Myst.
Z8k8B TIL: The USSR had a four-part process for subverting other countries, and spent 85% of its time and budget on psychological warfare, as described by a defector. The over 25-year process included phases of demoralization, destabilization, crisis, and normalization.
9YBOX TIL that the boson, which is often referred to in the U.S. popular media's the "god-particle" is named after Satyenda Nath Bose, who was not only a contemporary of Einstein, but was also his collaborator in developing Bose-Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose-Einstein condensate.
dMkB TIL that 25 years ago today St. Louis Cardinals second baseman Jose Oquendo pitched 4 innings of relief as well as playing every other position in a 19 inning game