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TIL the lowest score Super Mario Bros. can be beaten with is 600 points

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DQLLY TIL German composer Richard Strauss completed roughly 140 compositions between the ages of 6 and 16, including almost 60 songs & more than 40 piano works.
Oo6Ze TIL China Runs A High Speed Train From Beijing, China to Lhasa, Tibet, about 1272 miles away, and passes through the highest elevation attained by any train in the world (16,600ft) requiring oxygen to be pumped into the specially built passenger cabins and with a doctor onboard every train
7RoP TIL in a 1973 issue of The Amazing Spider-Man, Spider-Man saves his girlfriend, Gwen Stacy, from falling to her death by shooting a web down to catch her… but the sudden deceleration breaks her neck and kills her.
j6o6N TIL Donkeys have crosses on their backs
16Z5d TIL that the band Korn sued a school due to the fact a kid got suspended for wearing a shirt with their logo on it