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TIL that the character Soda Popinski in the NES game "Mike Tyson's Punch Out!!" was originally named Vodka Drunkenski in the arcade version of the game. The name was changed because of Nintendo of America's stringent censorship policies, which also led him drinking soda instead of vodka in the game.

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VMoWp TIL film critic Gene Siskel went to great lengths to show his contempt for the original Friday the 13th movie. He called the film’s director a “despicable creature,” published the address of Paramount’s chairman so people would write hate mail, and spoiled the film’s ending for his readers.
ADogB TIL of 'holdout houses' - old properties that hold out against new development. One such occupied 'million dollar corner' at Macy's in New York. Another example is Edith Macefield's house in Seattle, whose owner famously turned down an offer of $1M. She willed it to the construction superintendent.
oGe8 TIL that belief in dragons evolved independently in both Europe and China, and possibly the Americas and Australia as well
xVJ1B TIL SpaceX launched the remains of 152 people to space with a company called Celestis. That same company sent the ashes of Gene Roddenberry (Star Trek creator) to space as the first-ever space burial, back in 1992. Upcoming missions will send DNA and human ashes even farther, into Deep Space.
awYPM TIL of eccentric English aristocrat Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners [1883-1950]. A talented composer, writer and artist, Lord Berners had a clavichord in his Rolls-Royce, paper flowers in his garden, had tea with a horse and would drive around his estate in a pig mask to scare the locals.