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TIL That the Warcraft movie was so successful in China and such a failure in the United States that, for the first time, Blizzard is considering abandoning the US market for the sequel.

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pYdw4 TIL that Soviet General Georgy Zhukov oversaw innovations on the Mongolian front, including replacing gasoline engines in tanks with diesel. These developments helped perfect the T-34 tank, considered the war's most outstanding all-purpose tank.
d8elK TIL A Chinese psychiatrist was giving kids with "internet addiction" electro-shock treatment and psychiatric drugs in prison like conditions. The Chinese World of Warcraft community were outraged and started an online campaign to have him discredited.
1aRRP TIL When Robert Downey Jr became clean and sober after years of drug issues, no studio would hire him and no insurance company would insure him, and it was Mel Gibson who gave him his first acting job and paid the insurance from his own pocket to ensure Downey's career would be resurrected.
KOWg4 TIL It is estimated that 80 to 90 percent of all silent films are lost. According to research by Library of Congress only 14 percent of the 10,919 silent feature films released by major American studios between 1912 and 1929 is located and preserved.
dGAr TIL that Pope Gregory IX told his followers that cats were associated with the devil. As a result, people started killing cats. With fewer cats around to hunt rats, the rat population exploded…leading to the spread of the bubonic plague.