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Today I learned Obsidian Entertainment (involved in Planescape: Torment, Kotor II, PoE, Fallout series) worked on a prequel game about Snow White and the Seven Dwarves until it was canceled when Disney declared SW 'untouchable'.

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D1ekY TIL in the 1900s, Radithor was marketed as an energy drink, but was really just distilled water with radium in it. When the first person died of the radiation poisoning, he had to be buried in a lead coffin. His body was still radioactive when he was disinterred years later.
QNv8d TIL that despite being just 250 miles from mainland Africa, Madagascar was originally settled by seafarers from Indonesia -- 3,000 miles to the east.
0wdk1 TIL that William Adams, an English navigator during the 1600's, became the first of his nation to reach Japan, and was recognized as one of the first ever Western samurai.
D1OkP TIL about Arthur John Priest, a "fireman" who survived the sinking of the Titanic...and FIVE OTHER disasters at sea before and after.
e0jX6 TIL that Kurt Vonnegut was once Geraldo Rivera's father-in-law