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TIL: Fashionable women have been dying their hair pink as early as the 1910's

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0wnl1 TIL of Mira, the dying star that has been shooting across solar systems. It has burned for roughly 300,000 years leaving behind materials to help start and create new stars.
Z8nZv TIL an early script of Disney's Aladdin included a plotline with his mother and a song entitled 'Proud of Your Boy,' about how Aladdin was going to turn his life around and make his mother proud. It was cut from the movie as the story developed, but the song returned for the Broadway musical.
EgWBw TIL Nintendo released a Japan-exclusive game distribution service for the Super Famicom and Game Boy called "Nintendo Power." It allowed players to save up to seven games at a time onto a proprietary flash cartridge. The service lasted from 1997 to 2007.
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