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TIL that Waluigi wasn’t actually created by Nintendo- he was created by Camelot designer Fumihide Aoki solely for the purpose of being Wario’s duos partner/Luigi’s rival in Mario Tennis N64

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J1VMm TIL two pilots had their licenses revoked after participating in a failed stunt. While mid-flight, the pilots attempted to plane swap by skydiving from one aircraft to the other. Only one completed it. The other landed by parachute after being unable to enter the opposite plane, causing it crash.
grjML TIL that phosphorus was the first new element to be discovered since ancient times. In 1669, a German alchemist tried boiling and condensing urine in order to make the fabled philosopher’s stone. Instead, he discovered a substance that glowed in the dark and named it “phosphorus mirabilis.”
P1jDe TIL the caribbean island of Montserrat celebrates St Patrick's Day as a national holiday and festival in honor of a slave rebellion that occured on that date in 1768
d7pK TIL Ubisoft fixed their game by using a cracked executable made by the warez group Reloaded to pirate their game. The signature of the Reloaded group was still in the patch when it was cracked open.
LQ11p TIL about 2,4-DNP, a chemical that was used, among other things, to make black dye. 3 workers died during the 1890s after accidentally ingesting it. It dissipates energy from food in the body as heat, making people rapidly lose body fat and die from an excessive rise in body temperature.