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TIL Princess Zelda from The Legend of Zelda was named after Zelda Fitzgerald, the wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald

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5Y6xR TIL kids in Japan play more violent video games than American kids do yet are less aggressive.
a8rQb TIL India once released 25,000 flesh-eating turtles into the Ganges to eat the remains of corpses buried in the river after incomplete burning. The locals ate the turtles.
NX5yQ TIL of Kangri cancer, a squamous-cell carcinoma of the skin, found only in Kashmir in the northwest of the Indian subcontinent, due to the use of a kanger, a ceramic pot covered with wicker-work, carried for warmth during cold weather. It develops from erythema ab igne, AKA hot water bottle rash.
1aagP TIL The crust (crimped edge) of a Cornish Pasty was used as a handle which was then discarded due to the high levels of arsenic in many of the tin mines
R7G07 TIL That the pilot of the failed Challenger spacecraft's last audible words were "Uh oh"