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TIL J J Abrams made a deal with Valve to make movies of Half-Life and Portal

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ANXOn TIL That the first chocolate Advent calendar appeared in 1958, produced by a German company. In 1971 that Cadbury joined the race and launched its own version in the UK. Cadbury produced Advent calendars intermittently from 1972 to 1986, but it wasn’t until 1993 that they finally became a mainstay.
QJMkE TIL In 1977 the Chicago Sun-Times bought a bar and ran it with undercover reporters to investigate widespread corruption.
oeOo TIL Axl Rose’s original concept for the Sweet Child o’ Mine music video was to depict a drug trafficker carrying her child into a foreign country. It would then be revealed the child was dead and full of heroin.
LW70 TIL There is a Brazilian proverb that says “our country grows at night when the politicians are asleep.”
YpKVB TIL of Hellenism, the modern day revival of the ancient Greek religion