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TIL Nintendo refuses to do movies based off of their games because of the critically panned Super Mario Bros. movie.

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1ab7V TIL Researchers actually know shockingly little about male pattern baldness. While most agree it involves DHT, we don't know the specific mechanisms of how and why DHT causes baldness. This is due to baldness being classified as cosmetic issue, not a disease, which limits research funds available.
V6nG TIL forrest growth in the US has exceeded harvest since the 1940s, and that the US has more trees now than at any time in the past 100 years.
Br0Yy TIL: Despite its popularity in 1939, The Wizard of Oz didn't make a profit until it was re-released ten years later.
x6LAw TIL Golf was banned in England in 1457 because it was considered a distraction from the serious pursuit of archery.
W779d TIL mouse "car washes" are being developed by Columbia University scientists to help reduce ticks and Lyme disease.