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TIL Nintendo never intended to create Mario. The original arcade Donkey Kong was intended to be a Popeye game. When they lost the license, they came up with their own characters; Mario for Popeye, Donkey Kong for Bluto and Pauline for Olive Oyl.

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7BBp TIL The oldest cat to ever live was named Creme Puff and lived 38 years. Creme Puff’s owner had a second cat named Granpa, who lived 34 years. Both cats were fed a diet of bacon and eggs, asparagus, broccoli, and coffee with heavy cream.
p0xe TIL that the Tootsie roll recipe requires the previous day’s batch to be mixed into the current batch meaning theoretically there is some of the very first batch in every Tootsie roll today.
bOG4 TIL that between 1911-12, George Murray Levick observed a breeding cycle of Adelie Penguins on Cape Adare. He found them to be very depraved, practicing homosexuality, necrophilia, and abuse. He suppressed the study, which was only published last year, because he found it “too shocking”.
1LBr TIL of Bill Baird, who was convicted as a felon in 1967 for giving a speech to 1,500 college students about birth control and then handing out one package of condoms and one of contraceptive foam. His actions would not be legal until 1972.
rRLo TIL that Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw (Zero Punctuation) was offered the chance to write the script for Duke Nukem Forever, but his script was rejected due to the fact that it was “too out there” and didn’t match Duke Nukem’s “tone”.