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TIL Nintendo tried to buy the rights to Harry Potter so that they could make games for each book in the series

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VZLB TIL there’s a team of NASA scientists who’ve been pretending they’re on Mars for nearly a year. They live and work in a dome on the side of a Hawaiian volcano and only go out in spacesuits.
WkQaN TIL the landlocked country of Mongolia has the smallest navy in the world. It is a single tugboat with a crew of seven, located in Lake Khovsgol which is surrounded entirely by Mongolian territory.
l7jEK TIL Hoyt Axton wrote the number 1 hit Joy to the World, while his mother Mae wrote the number 1 hit Heartbreak Hotel
Oo5ka TIL A key symptom of depression is anhedonia, typically defined as the loss of ability to experience pleasure. It is a core feature of depression, but it is also one of the most treatment-resistant symptoms. Using ketomine, researchers found over-activity in the brain blunting reward seeking
78YAL TIL that the test to measure the maneuverability in automobiles is called the elk test because it measure how successfully a vehicle handles avoiding large unexpected animals on Scandinavians roads.