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TIL Salman Rushdie loves Super Mario World. He played the game religiously while he was in hiding, to the great annoyance of his wife.

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YNVv TIL Julian Lennon had to buy the letters he wrote to his father (John Lennon) at an auction, because Yoko One wouldn’t give them to him.
E191d TIL the Statue of Liberty wears a size 879 shoe.
W77lN TIL slime molds are problem solvers, scooting around on pseudopods before ballooning to release their spores. They can find the shortest path through a maze, and they inspired a slime-mold algorithm that researchers used to map filaments of dark matter connecting galaxies in the universe.
xVpPk TIL that the UK had just one certified Rectal Teaching Assistant who allowed students to explore his anus. In 2016, he lost his job to a robotic anus after scientists at imperial invented an ultra realistic anus.
wVE6 TIL that Andrew Jackson’s political opponents referred to him as jackass. He adopted the name and used it as his campaign symbol. It would eventually become the symbol of the entire Democratic Party.