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TIL the same Dr. Light who built Megaman is Mario’s family doctor

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D1gED TIL: About “Garden Path Sentences”, a grammatically correct sentence that starts in such a way that a reader’s most likely interpretation will be incorrect; the reader is lured into a parse that turns out to be a dead end or yields a clearly unintended meaning. Like “The old man the boat”
QN9Rd TIL that Spam is seen as a luxury food in South Korea due to smuggling during Korean War from U.S. army base
Zxm4 TIL Danny DeVito produced Pulp Fiction
6EVZl TIL The FDA tried to regulate vitamin supplements in high doses (>150% DV) due to potential health risks. Regulations were fought by the Vitamin Industry, who then funded a bill preventing all FDA regulation of supplements, which has been law since in 1976.
epdWJ TIL getting gasoline in your eyes isn't really any worse than getting pool water in your eyes.