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TIL that in 2005 Nintendo released a game known as Super Princess Peach. In the game, Mario, Toad and Luigi have been captured by Bowser and Peach must rescue them, as well as collecting the all powerful ‘Vibe Scepter’

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5YEJ9 TIL the word ancient Egyptians used for solving mathematical problems that involved finding unknown quantities was "Aha".
Z8Jop TIL that, in 2018, visitors at a zoo in southeastern China threw bricks and concrete chunks at kangaroos to get them to hop, resulting in the death of one of them
GYR85 TIL 15 year old Kate Winslet began a romantic relationship and with 27 year old Stephen Tredre while working on a film. She cohabited with him in London until 1995. Winslet missed the premiere of Titanic to attend his funeral. In a 2008 interview, she said that she had never gotten over his death.
AaA4 TIL that Michel Ray, the Young Actor who Played Lawrence’s Servant Farraj in Lawrence of Arabia, Quit Acting, Went to Harvard, Then into Finance, Became an Olympic Skier and Luger, Married the Heineken Heiress And Is Now A Billionaire.
78LkX TIL that in WW2, "unrestricted submarine warfare" - the sinking of merchant ships by submarines without warning - was ordered in response to allied aircraft illegally bombing a Nazi submarine under Red Cross banner openly attempting to rescue survivors of the RMS Laconia.