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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.

woOKY TIL of "Historia Piscium," a book about fishes published in 1686 by the Royal Society. The book sold so poorly that the Society reneged on funding Isaac Newton's "Principia". Clerk Edmund Halley funded Principia himself; the Society later paid him with unsold copies of Historia
W7w7A Today I learned that a day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus. Venus has an extremely slow rotation on its axis, taking about 243 Earth days to complete one rotation, while it only takes about 225 Earth days for Venus to orbit the Sun.
WknEo TIL the 1959 movie Some Like It Hot featured LQBTQ themes, including cross dressing, and as a result was produced without approval from the Hays Code, a popular set of self-censorship guidelines used for decades in Hollywood. The success of the film is one of the reasons behind its abandonment.
JYebj TIL Earl Simmons (DMX) got his name from an instrument he had used at Children's Home he stayed in as a boy, the Oberheim DMX drum machine; it later was also interpreted as 'Dark Man X'.
E1ALd TIL even National Television Network of Japan didn't dare to mess with Disney and their lawyers because they were terrified about what they would do to them in return when similarities between Atlantis and Nadia were strong enough for its production company Gainax to sue for plagiarism.