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TIL maintain morale, WWI wartime censors blocked early reports of the 1918 Influenza epidemic in their countries. However, papers were free to report the epidemic's effects in neutral Spain, creating a false impression of Spain as especially hard hit—thus the pandemic's nickname, the Spanish flu.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic
Submitted December 21, 2014 at 09:09PM by Chafuter http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2pz804/til_maintain_morale_wwi_wartime_censors_blocked/
Submitted December 21, 2014 at 09:09PM by Chafuter http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2pz804/til_maintain_morale_wwi_wartime_censors_blocked/
TIL Atari programmers met with Atari CEO Ray Kassar in May 1979 to demand that the company treat developers as record labels treated musicians, with royalties and their names on game boxes. Kaplan said no and that "anyone can do a cartridge." So the programmers left Atari and founded Activision
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activision#History
Submitted December 22, 2014 at 02:44PM by CCPearson http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2q1zxm/til_atari_programmers_met_with_atari_ceo_ray/
Submitted December 22, 2014 at 02:44PM by CCPearson http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2q1zxm/til_atari_programmers_met_with_atari_ceo_ray/
TIL Philip Seymour Hoffman had been sober for 23 years until he accepted an alcoholic beverage to celebrate the completion of The Master. This resulted in relapse, after which he started to use prescription medication. the following year he was using heroin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Seymour_Hoffman
Submitted December 22, 2014 at 06:04AM by whollymoly http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2q0q56/til_philip_seymour_hoffman_had_been_sober_for_23/
Submitted December 22, 2014 at 06:04AM by whollymoly http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2q0q56/til_philip_seymour_hoffman_had_been_sober_for_23/
TIL that in the early 1910s a serial killer named Béla Kiss stole money from women and then pickled their bodies in large barrels; when police tried to arrest him in a military hospital he escaped and was never found again
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la_Kiss
Submitted December 21, 2014 at 11:59PM by j4p4n http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2pzno3/til_that_in_the_early_1910s_a_serial_killer_named/
Submitted December 21, 2014 at 11:59PM by j4p4n http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2pzno3/til_that_in_the_early_1910s_a_serial_killer_named/
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