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TIL One of the first major video game crossovers was 1988's Konami Wai Wai World and featured amongst others Simon Belmont from Castlevania, King Kong, and Mikey Walsh from The Goonies

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6EVyX TIL that in 1986, when a five year old boy fell into a gorilla enclosure and lost consciousness, a male gorilla named Jambo stood between the boy and the other gorillas in a protective gesture, he even stroke the boy's back. This incident helped create a positive public perception of gorillas.
NXrD6 TIL There is an entire album of mcgruff the crime dog song McGruff - McGruff's Smart Kids Album
R5yQ TIL that in Japan there’s a series of Melody Roads with grooves that, when driven over, play the song “Memories of Summer” through the vibrations in the car.
E1yRW TIL "&" and "and" mean different things in movie credits. Two writers' names joined with "&" means they collaborated, while "and" means they worked on the script at different times.
R5ZDj TIL that while the first computer built, the Z3, had only 176 bytes of memory: the first computer designed - over 100 years earlier - had 16.6kB of memory.