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TIL The Legend of Zelda was first released 29 years ago today! Happy Birthday Link!

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w118 TIL Columbus thought manatees were mermaids on Jan 09, 1493 describing them as “not half as beautiful as they are painted.”
b60Aa TIL about Toto Koopman, a Dutch-Indonesian model who worked as a spy for the Dutch Resistance in WWII, escaped imprisonment several times, pretended to be a nurse and forged papers to rescue women from the gas chamber and later became an archaeologist as well as found an influential art gallery.
16llO TIL The proposal for reconstructing Haiti's National Palace includes a grand boulevard, a large pyramid honoring earthquake victims and a replica of the old palace structure
dDgb7 TIL that Dante Alighieri only met the real-life Beatrice twice in his life.
1AgX TIL between 1970 and 1973, four Israeli fighter pilots translated The Hobbit from English to Hebrew to pass the time in an Egyptian prison, where they were held as POWs. The pilots’ translation was published commercially in 1977, and up until 2012 was considered the best Hebrew version of the book.