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TIL Nintendo bought the rights to two Mario porn parodies in order to halt their distribution.

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7Nkx TIL Teller from Penn & Teller has legally changed his name to just “Teller”.
VMom TIL that there is a group of Islands in the Bay of Bengal, South-east of India, where the Andamanese people live a 60,000 year old existence. Their culture has no knowledge of cultivation or fire-making. All outside contacts with civilization have been met with hostility.
wLVRW TIL that when Kim Peek managed payrolls of 160 people, he was able to complete this task in just hours without a calculator and when he was fired to be replaced by a computer, it took two full time accountants plus the computer just to replace him.
45L6 TIL in 1995 a man in Australia attempted suicide by shooting himself in the chest with a shotgun. When that didn’t work he used a pistol to shoot himself in the head, then used the shotgun again on his throat and finally died after one last shotgun blast to the heart
VBONB TIL In 2022, 192 American citizens died in Mexico. Most of those deaths were accidents or suicides. Only 46 were ruled as homicides.