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TIL that Shigeru Miyamoto (Mario, Zelda, DK) told Retro Studios developers: “Please take care of DK. He is my friend" after a pitch meeting in Kyoto.

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epEl4 TIL civilians are subject to the Geneva Convention and the Hague Convention and have been executed in the past as war criminals
JY0bk TIL that America has 3.1% of the world's kids but buys 40% of the world's toys. (University of California, 2013)
N77J TIL a Pakistani diplomat was denied an Ambassadorship to Saudi Arabia because his name in Arabic meant “Biggest Cock”
eL6E TIL Soldiers in the U.S. military’s psychological warfare department (PSYOPS) used loudspeakers to tempt enemy fighters in Afghanistan into battles they couldn’t win by calling them,”lady men” and “cowardly dogs” and also air dropped propaganda leaflets.
W71Xo TIL of Rupert Trimmingham, a Black US soldier serving in WW2 who in 1944 wrote a letter to an Army-run magazine about being refused service in a Louisiana restaurant while German PoWs were served inside, sparking support from other soldiers and contributing to the 1948 integration of the US military