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TIL that Yoshi’s full name is T. Yoshisaur Munchakoopas, and that Mario’s genus is “homo nintendonus”

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ADrrB TIL toasts with butter factually tend to fall on the buttery side due to a combination of aerodynamics, inertia, and gyroscopic effects.
ZReB TIL ABC has been cutting scenes from “A Charlie Brown Christmas”, a movie about the excessive commercialization of Christmas, to make room for more commercials.
QJnPL TIL of Sadi Carnot (father of thermodynamics) who replaced the previously long-lived idea that heat was a substance by the conception of heat as a quantitative property
OGkEg TIL: About “Crab Mentality” - a metaphor used to indicate the way of thinking usually described as “If I can’t have something, neither can you”
8aRj8 TIL, the unconfirmed record for fastest moving manmade object is a manhole cover propelled by a nuclear detonation. A high-speed camera trained on the lid caught only one frame of it moving upward before it vanished—which means it was moving about 125,000 miles per hour