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TIL Donkey Kong was Mario’s pet who he had abused and later kidnapped his girlfriend as revenge for the mistreatment

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nWlyP Today I learned McDonald's french fries supposedly tasted better prior to 1990. That is when McDonald's stopped using beef fat and began using vegetable oil with beef seasoning(making the fried not vegan or vegetarian).
XbPX TIL South Korea’s national drink is soju, a clear alcohol, typically made from rice or barley, with an alcohol content of about 20 percent and a government-mandated price of about $1 per bottle, so all citizens can afford it.
167eP TIL skilled sheepdogs sell for $30,000 or more.
R7PQj TIL the first webcam streaming was about a group of researchers making sure they always have coffee in the pot at their lab. The cam aired it from 1993 until 2001.
KOK9J TIL about The tragedy of the commons- an economic problem in which every individual has an incentive to consume a resource at the expense of every other individual with no way to exclude anyone from consuming resulting in overconsumption and ultimately depletion of the resource.