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TIL in the 1990s, a national survey found that Mario was more recognizable to American children than Mickey Mouse

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lovL5 TIL that In October 1971, a physicist and an astronomer took 4 cesium-beam atomic clocks aboard commercial airliners. They flew twice around the world and when reunited, the sets of clocks were found to disagree according to the predictions of the relativity theory
0wyoj TIL that there is a intersection in Manchester that many people did not like as pedestrians had to wait for ages for traffic lights. Someone had the idea to remove all the traffic lights and crossings. Instead of wrecking havoc, drivers paid more attention,collisions and incidents declined.
X0m5X TIL that if you were to unravel all the DNA in your body and lay it out end to end, it would stretch an astonishing distance of 67 billion miles long. This is equivalent to completing round trips around the moon 150,000 times.
LQX0v TIL that the original Japanese name for the game Resident Evil was called Biohazard. Capcom thought the name Biohazard would be impossible to trademark in North America due to other games with the same name. Capcom held an internal company contest to find a new name, and Resident Evil was chosen.
La99 TIL that Rush Limbaugh was detained for prescription fraud when returning to the US with a bottle of Viagra that wasn’t in his name