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TIL The author of graphic novel Maus, which portrays mice as Jews and cats as Nazis, felt his ideas were being stolen and used in An American Tale so he released the book early, before the film to gain the upper hand.

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GoMQ TIL that Marc Lang holds the record for simultaneous blindfold chess. He played 46 matches at once, winning 19, drawing 13, and losing 3.
b9P69 TIL that between 1968-99, Black, Latinx, and Asian American UC students led multiple strikes on campus to demand ethnic studies courses, fair admission practices, and scholarships for POCs.
0wExv TIL Parisians used to "hang out" in the morgue situated near the Notre Dame de Paris. The macabre attraction used to lure as many as 40.000 visitors per day. There were even street vendors catering to the crowds waiting outside to take a peek at the corpses.
jNEYM TIL of Gorillas Titus and Beetsme: they met and bonded as Juveniles and later created a rare bachelor group for 8 years while the duo had homosexual relations. After adding some females they drove of the other males and effectively shared power in what became the largest gorilla group in the world
LkD1Z TIL that the Apollo computers were 100% reliable, with 2,504 hours of flight time and only 73KB of memory.