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TIL Jocko Willink inspired Snake in Metal Gear Solid with 10 Life Lessons

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V5e8 TIL after the release of Gayla Peevey’s “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas” (1953) a campaign was launched to give her a hippopotamus for Christmas. The campaign succeeded & she was presented with an actual hippopotamus, which she donated to the city zoo. The hippopotamus lived for nearly 50 years
XE1BD TIL of the Sack of Rome in 390 BC. After the Romans were routed and the city was all but destroyed, the Romans figured their only decision was to pay the invaders to leave. It worked.
DQnPr TIL Vincent van Gogh had a known habit of sucking on his brushes to swap colors. It is widely believed that the lead poisoning partly led to his severe mental decline, resulting in his famously cutting off his ear, and ultimately shooting himself in the chest.
4XrQR TIL: the infamous fleeing of "a million Vietnamese from communism" in 1954 was actually the result of a CIA propaganda campaign of "God has gone South"
b9wV9 TIL ancient Mesopotamian beer has been recreated by archeologists who describe it as flat, lukewarm, sour, milky-looking and sometimes a bit cloying; the Mesopotamians didn't know about hops and drank it with long reed straws