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TIL that Donkey Kong Country was originally going to be "Donkey Kong vs. Super Wario." The plot would have had Wario stealing a time machine built by Mario and turning him to stone, so Donkey Kong had to save him. It was abandoned because Nintendo wanted brand-new villains.

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BrNrL TIL Lego has no military related sets because the inventor's policy was to not want to make war seem like child's play
X0GKk TIL about Operation Tiger, a training exercise that was supposed to prepare U.S. troops for the D-Day invasion of Normandy and resulted in the deaths of 946 American servicemen.
neBbB TIL from the 1930’s to the 50’s, film studios used pure white asbestos fibers to replicate the look of snow. It was used in ‘The Wizard of Oz’ and the famous snow scene at the end of Bing Crosby’s ‘White Christmas.’ Brands of asbestos fake snow included ‘White Magic’ ‘Snow Drift’ and ‘Pure White.’
9ndr TIL in the 1980s a man with severe OCD shot himself in the head in an attempt to commit suicide. Instead of killing him, the bullet destroyed the part of his brain that was responsible for his OCD, and he went on to become a straight-A college student five years later.
W71w4 TIL that 200 students received "graduataion" diplomas in 2012. Spring Creek High School in Nevada received the misspelled documents from Jostens, which quickly sent corrected diplomas by mail to the students.