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TIL the original Super Mario Bros 2 game was too hard and unpopular overseas, so Nintendo redeveloped an existing Japanese game (Dream Factory: Heart-Pounding Panic) and turned it into what we know as Super Mario Bros 2, hence the weird, new characters and game play.

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e0Ykn TIL in the “The Wizard Of Oz” movie, the Tin Man cried chocolate syrup instead of actual machine oil as the oil didn’t show up well on film
0wYGL TIL about the human connectome project, a project that maps the neural connections in human brain, just like the human genome project to map the DNA .
kORXE TIL Adultery is a criminal offense with punishments varying widely by state. In Maryland, the penalty is a paltry $10 fine. But in Massachusetts, an adulterer could face up to three years in jail.
X5gk TIL self-taught naturalist Ray Stanford shocked paleontologists by routinely finding hundreds of dinosaur prints in suburban Washington DC where only a handful had been discovered before. He has a unique ability to recognize patterns and abnormalities in rock. He also claims seeing UFOs in clouds.
O7d7 TIL that in 1989, police in Minneapolis, Minnesota, conducted a drug raid at the home of an elderly couple, Lloyd Smalley and Lillian Weiss, after receiving inaccurate information from an informant. Police said they were certain no one was inside - Smalley and Weiss died of smoke inhalation.