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VBA9Q TIL that the Devil May Cry series began its life as the first developmental build of Resident Evil 4
Y5Bv TIL Braille was originally developed as ‘Sonography’, a means for French spies in the Napoleonic Wars to communicate without the use of light. Louis Braille would later point out the flaws in the original code, creating the version we use today.
rRPXd TIL that in the most famous scene of the movie "Gone With The Wind", an alternate line "Frankly my dear, I just don't care." was also shot in the event the censors would object. The censors approved the movie but fined producer David O. Selznick $5,000 for including the curse.
GYJeE TIL Plato attempted to describe how the world came into being in his dialogue "Timaeus". Plato first argues that since the sensible world “is always becoming and is never real,” it must have come to be, and therefore must have a cause. This cause he calls “the maker and father of the universe”
j6dLj TIL Amos Lunt, the San Quentin hangman, claimed he was being tormented by the ghosts of those he executed. He eventually had to be committed to an asylum