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TIL That in North Korean Propaganda, Kim Jong Il’s first ever time bowling was played across 13 games of bowling simultaneously and he scored 300 points on each lane. The bowling centre, Maxis Bowling Kangso shut down all of it’s lanes forever in his honour.

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longN TIL of Mario Seagale, Nintendo America's original landlord. When Nintendo couldn't pay their rent, they offered to name the character in their new game after him, thus creating 'Mario'.
R5DLa TIL that Luis Alvarez, designed the implosion mechanism for the "Fat Boy" plutonium bomb also discovered the theory that an asteroid killed the dinosaurs
eBb TIL the sea monsters on maps were originally put there to indicate that it was uncharted.
jNWWa TIL that Bill Hamilton developed modern jetboats since no existing boats could navigate the shallow, fast flowing rivers of New Zealand. He took his boats to the USA for demonstrations amidst criticism from the media. In 1960 his boats became the first and only boats to travel up the grand canyon.
v1mxB TIL about Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), a system where two AI’s effectively “compete” against each other to create synthetic new versions of existing data like photos or music