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TIL that Bagpipes, haggis, kilts, whisky and tartan all originate from outside of Scotland

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yVbap TIL that in the original Super Mario Bros., you can continue where you left off in the last game by holding A down when you press Start
P1PbE TIL that at the opening ceremonies to the 1936 Summer Olympics, the event organizers made the mistake of shooting off a cannon after they had released hundreds of pigeons. While the cannon shot blanks, the sound of the shot scared the birds so much that they defecated on the athletes below.
bLlZ TIL men with ‘madonna whore complex’ are only sexual attracted to slutty women (whores) but cannot love such a woman. They can love a chaste partner (a madonna) but not be sexually attracted to them. Freud described it,“Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love”
1aoX8 TIL that director Stanley Kubrick was once chased off the set of 2001: A Space Odyssey by one of his own stuntmen
7jEZ TIL that during the first four days of World War II pet-owners in London queued up at animal shelters to put down their dogs and cats. More than 400,000 animals died. There was no government order to do so; nor was there any economic need.