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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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e0n8b TIL A movie exists wherein Denise Richards falls in love with Paul Walker, only to have a gang of bullies feed him to a lion, at which point a mad scientist puts his brain in a robotic T-Rex.
awr8y TIL for Pingu, all the voices in the original series were done by one man; an Italian clown called Carlo Bonomi. He did the voices without a script and helped developed “Penguinese” – the babbling language in the show. He was influenced by a traditional comedic language called Grammelot.
gGpW TIL that the difference between inland seas and lakes is that inland seas are formed as the result of oceans spilling over onto land during warm geological periods.
Y7GWA TIL about Fregoli Delusion, which causes people to believe that different people they encounter are actually the same person in disguise.
yMwe TIL that after Congressman John Rankin refused to sit next to Adam Clayton Powell Jr. because of the colour of his skin, Powell found every opportunity possible to sit close to the Mississippi Congressman. On one occasion Powell followed him from seat to seat until Rankin had moved five times.