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TIL Donkey Kong got the name because Miyamoto thought “donkey” meant “stupid” in English.

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X7GD TIL of the “Demon Core,” a plutonium sphere that killed scientists on TWO separate occasions
8yL8 TIL that in the early days of the Post Office, people would continue writing text on the same page at 90 degrees to the original text to reduce expensive postage costs.
DDAr TIL that Garrett Hardin, author of “The Tragedy of the Commons” later acknowledged that having resources shared in common did not inevitably end badly, and that he should have titled his essay “The Tragedy of the Unmanaged Commons”
v1PLD TIL that rainforests are responsible for roughly one-third (28%) of the Earth’s oxygen but most (70%) of the oxygen in the atmosphere is produced by marine plants.
Kmgw TIL Kanye West once got arrested for breaking a paparazzi camera, and used his one phone call to order Chinese takeout.