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TIL that Nintendo bought up the rights of two 1993 pornographic parodies of the Super Mario video game series to halt their distribution indefinitely

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Wkk8d TIL that the FBI classified an MIT doctoral candidate's research on animal rights as a threat to national security
0oYR TIL Drug overdose deaths, driven largely by prescription drug overdose deaths, are now the leading cause of injury death in the United States – surpassing motor vehicle crashes.
XVy6 TIL Russian ice slides of the 17th century inspired the modern roller coaster. They were wooden structures often 70-80 ft high with ice frozen over a sloping ramp which stretched out 100s of feet. Riders ploughed into a pile of sand to slow them down.
N7MwQ TIL parents filed an ethics complaint against a High School Biology teacher for using the word "vagina" while teaching reproduction.
BrdYW TIL Burt Shavitz, co-creator and face of Burt’s Bees, was an accomplished photographer prior to beekeeping and had photographs published in Life and Time Magazines.