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TIL that on its birthday (April 5th) Curiosity sings itself “Happy Birthday.”

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Z8ob4 TIL during the late 80s and 90s the Dragon Quest series launched on weekends due to the fact that it was so popular that Japanese children would skip school to buy it - Japanese police noticed and asked publisher Square Enix to change the day the game came out so kids could get the game easier.
mxEWp TIL that, the father of Elizabeth Holmes, founder of Theranos, was a vice president of ENRON, another company that committed fraud.
W7yO4 TIL Mana Ashida, the young girl playing the younger version of Mako Mori in Pacific Rim (2013) could not pronounce director Guillermo Del Toro’s name, so he gave her special permission to call him Totoro-san
oRKEA TIL that donated organs are constantly attacked by the recipient’s immune system, which can age them faster, and that immunosuppressive drugs are needed to avoid rejection and infection.
9RbB TIL of the Horseshoe Theory. The idea is that the political spectrum isn’t a line, it’s more of a horseshoe shape. The extreme ends of the left and right are more similar to each other than moderate left and moderate right.