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TIL a new SNES game will be released in 2013

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4kRXo TIL Melbourne's Federation Square is built on 4,000 springs to prevent the train lines running underneath from vibrating the artworks in the galleries above.
AD104 TIL The magic of Star Wars was largely thanks to one man, Roger Christian, who spent countless hours without getting paid, constructing the worlds on screen from piles of scrapped airplanes.
86XX TIL there was a woman who grew tired of her Russian adopted son’s violent behavior, so she sent him back on a one-way flight to the country from whence he came with a half-page note explaining the situation.
oB8jr TIL the English law 'Bill of Rights 1689' is one of only two English laws still active across all Commonwealth realms. This means that Canada, Australia, South Africa, India, etc. still all have this law on their books. This law guarantees basic rights to all citizens of these countries.
KYAbJ TIL: About Queen Radavalona I, "The Mad Monarch of Madagascar". She enforced isolationist policies, hunted down Christians, repelled the French, and made tax payments payable through forced labor. She eliminated her mom by starvation to not spill her own blood. The population dropped in half.