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TIL the original Fallout 1 & 2 source code was believed to have been destroyed (preventing official re-releases), but a developer secretly defied orders and preserved it. The code still exists today but can't be released without Bethesda's approval.

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0eeR TIL in “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure” the time machine was to be a 1969 Chevrolet van. The idea was abandoned because it was too similar to the DeLorean used in “Back to the Future”. A telephone booth was eventually used despite it’s similarities to “Dr. Who”.
bEea TIL the oldest person ever was a French woman who died in 1997 at 122 years old. One of her early memories includes selling colored pencils to Vincent Van Gogh
yQZ0e TIL that Franklin D Roosevelt's grandfather Warren Delano made a fortune smuggling opium into China around the time of the first Opium War
em7n TIL The co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous believed LSD could be used to cure alcoholics and credited the drug with helping his own recovery from often debilitating depression.
LdKV TIL First Ladies Edith Wilson and Nancy Reagan are both descendants of Pocahontas.