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TIL that If you hear the GameCube menu background music sped up to 16x you will hear the same tune of the Famicom’s Disk System startup.

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YM4P TIL in 1913 it was legal to mail children. With stamps attached to their clothing, children rode trains to their destinations, accompanied by letter carriers. A newspaper reported it cost 53 cents for parents to mail their daughter to her grandparents for a family visit.
kDa4 TIL of the Taxil Hoax, where a Frenchman spent 12 years as a Roman Catholic writing anti-Masonic accounts, only to reveal it was a prank on the Church. As he said “…I thought I would kill myself laughing at some of the things proposed, but everything went; there is no limit to human stupidity”
p8nZ4 TIL That Asbestos was not completely banned in the United States, and can still be legally used
W7NGN TIL in 2007 two Americans re-discovered Pure Nacional cacao trees thought to have been completely wiped out by disease in the early 20th century. The ancient Nacional varietal was cultivated more than 5,000 years ago, and is thought to produce the world’s most exquisite (and expensive) chocolate.
4GQg TIL that in 1361, Peter I of Portugal captured assassins who had decapitated his wife, and publicly executed them by ripping out their hearts with his own hands.