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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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neZJ9 TIL about the ‘Stoned Ape’ theory the idea that ingestion of psychedelic mushrooms was the "evolutionary catalyst" from which language, projective imagination, the arts, religion, philosophy, science, and all of human culture sprang.
9YVQG TIL that the distinctive nose of the Shinkansen 500 bullet train prevents sonic booms whenever it exits a tunnel and was discovered when scientists studied the shape of a kingfisher's beak to learn how it hit the water at high speed
woo86 TIL that Gene Roddenberry's original script for the first "Star Trek" movie contained a scene in which James T. Kirk has a fistfight with an alien who had assumed the image of Jesus Christ. Certain elements of this script did eventually show up in "Star Trek: The Motion Picture"—but most did not.
XpGD TIL that the 1993 film Cool Runnings was released in the Czech Republic and Slovakia under a title which translates as “Coconuts on Snow”.
69W0Z TIL that the words "lesbian" and "sapphic" both come from this legendary woman named Sappho who lived on the island of Lesbos