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TIL: Because Nintendo could not get the rights to the Popeye cartoon character, they came up with Mario instead.

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yVmVX TIL that ABBA singer Anni-Frid Lyngstad performs the female spoken word verse in the Adam Ant song "Strip".
wLPxM TIL that a picture of a giant robot helping Russia revolutionaries storm the winter palace in 1917, was accidentally used in an Australian history exam. Some students wasted time in trying to figure out what the giant robot was, thinking it was a statue of a Russian politician or a battleship.
MeeDV TIL that a cow-smuggling tunnel was discovered in 2017 under the India–Pakistan border.
xVKwb TIL during the Civil War a Maine woman was captured at sea by Confederate pirates but escaped by getting them blackout drunk and then convincing their slave crew to "make them prisoners" and sail with her to freedom.
J1yDV TIL that modern birds come from four distinct lineages that survived the asteroid impact.