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

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0wXkj TIL the Mongolian Navy consists of 7 men, only one of which knows how to swim, and a single tour boat.
r05w TIL Buster Keaton (“a master of conveying action through imagery alone”) and Charlie Chaplin had a friendly rivalry over who could use the fewest intertitles in their silent movies. Typical silents averaged 240 intertitles. Chaplin won with a low of 21; Buster got as low as 23.
ZLkG TIL: Americans aged 18-29 estimate that 30% of the population identifies as gay. Those aged 65+ assume it’s 20%. Those with a Masters or Doctorate assume it’s 15%. The true percentage is 3.8% identifying as gay.
p8LKN TIL about Tennis for Two, a 1958 video game played on an oscilloscope invented by a physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory for a public exhibition. Largely forgotten until patent litigation in the 1970s, it was the first video game developed purely for entertainment.
a88x0 TIL that earwax of Europeans and Africans is light to dark brown, sticky and moist. The earwax of Asians is colourless or grey, brittle and dry.