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TIL Chun-Li’s Energy Bar was planned to be shorter than everyone else’s in Street Fighter II, because a designer thought “women are not as strong”

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LwQ9 TIL some of the first German Soldiers captured at Normandy on D-Day were actually Korean. They had been pressed into service by the Japanese, captured by the Soviets, then captured by the Germans, then captured by the Americans.
kOdd1 TIL about a 2000 year old Roman era tomb in Jordan whose walls hold 260 figures painted in narrative scenes with comic-style speech bubbles. The 60 odd texts painted in black appear to be Aramaic using Greek letters and are considered one of oldest versions of comic design.
NARe TIL In 2009 Burger King launched a campaign that if you unfriended 10 friends on Facebook you were entitled to a free whopper. The person you unfriended would get a message telling them that their friendship is worth less than a whopper.
69Qj7 TIL that 6,000 Mexican textile workers were massacred in 1907
nV9o TIL in WW2 the Polish had enlisted a bear on their side who enjoyed drinking, wrestling, cigarettes and even slept in tents. He would carry heavy ammunition crates to soldiers on the battle field and never once dropped a shell.