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TIL Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of the Super Mario series, was shocked by the violence in the game GoldenEye 007 and suggested the game end with Bond visiting his enemies in the hospital and shaking their hands

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R50pa TIL George Lucas’s dog, an Alaskan malamute named Indiana, was often taken by the Lucases on car drives and called their ‘furry copilot’. He was an inspiration for Chewbacca and the source of Indiana Jones’ name.
p8xM8 TIL of the 1561 celestial phenomenon over Nuremberg, Germany. The event was documented in a broadsheet news article at the time with claims that witnesses observed hundreds of spheres, cylinders and other odd-shaped objects that moved erratically overhead.
d8GwZ TIL that during the Spanish Civil War the International Brigades took shelter in the University of Madrid, building barricades from library books. Nineteenth century German philosophy was supposedly the most effective at stopping bullets.
B4Mk TIL Steve Jobs used a loophole in the medical registration system to get his non-essential liver transplant before 16,000 other people who were already on the list for years.
d8ELd TIL Muhammad Ali’s daughter, Maryum Ali was a support worker for 15 years working in high crime neighbourhoods. She was on the TV show ’60 Days In’ and spent 2 months as an undercover inmate. She also wrote a children's picture book called 'I Shook Up The World: The Incredible Life of Muhammad Ali.'