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YpvrA TIL: the guy who played the Nazi leader in Casablanca was also the inspiration for the Joker and a solid dude. Conrad Veidt was a star of German cinema who was fervently anti-Nazi. He moved to America with his jewish wife to create films to convince the US to join the war against the Axis.
a86n9 TIL that the ancient Sumerian Gods' first attempt to create humans failed because they were too drunk. "Meanwhile in heaven, the gods were having a large, drunken banquet. They decided to create humans. The first race was made of clay, and weak in body and mind. At the time everyone was too drunk".
E1k0 TIL the infamous antigaming website, MAVAV (Mothers Against Videogame Addiction and Violence) was a hoax created to show how information can be propogated on the internet.
xglb TIL that baseball player Gaylord Perry’s manager once remarked that “They’ll put a man on the moon before he hits a home run.”. On July 20, 1969, just an hour after the Apollo 11 spacecraft carrying Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon, Perry hit the first home run of his career
JxGB TIL Margaret Thatcher’s son conspired with a private mercenary company to stage a coup in a West African country for oil money