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TIL that Winnipeg, despite being one of the coldest cities in Canada, is the slurpee capital of the world.

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wPBM TIL that Nintendo wanted Mario to ride Yoshi since the NES period, but it took six years for technology to make the concept possible.
Vm4 TIL That James Watson, the person who discovered the double-helix model of DNA, In an interview said “ There was a natural desire that all human beings should be equal, but "people who have to deal with black employees find this not true.”
WZn8 TIL since the SNES wasn’t powerful enough to emulate a GameBoy in software, the Super GameBoy actually contained all the hardware of a regular gameboy except the screen
mxA7p TIL the person who graduates last in his class during the United States Military Academy at West Point graduation ceremony each year is called "the goat" joining an exclusive club which includes Civil War hero General George Custer.
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