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TIL The development cycle for Super Mario 64 was so hard that two programmers retired from developing video games completely because of it.

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WZGB TIL the Book of Mathew is the only gospel to mention the Magi (aka the “Wise Men”) and it never specifies how many there were. The three gifts has led to the widespread assumption that there were three men. In Eastern Christianity, especially the Syriac churches, the Magi often number twelve.
e0Lwb TIL Leslie Nielsen regularly carried a fart machine with him and often used it during televised interviews
neVQ7 TIL The first "bleep" censor machine was invented in 1921 after Vaudeville actress Olga Petrova appeared on a Newark radio station making an oblique reference to the need for birth control in violation of the Comstock Laws.
lolla TIL Cancer death rates are down 25% since 1991, with 2.1 million deaths averted. The cancer death rate declines by about 1.5% annually in both men and women.