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TIL: Penn Badgley, star of Gossip Girl and You, voice acted in two Mario games for the Nintendo 64 (Mario Golf and Mario Tennis)

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Jn1j TIL In North Korea it is the year 103, not 2014. This is because their calendar is based around the birth of Kim Il-Sung
R5lV8 TIL that Richard Harvey, the recorder player on the soundtrack for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, did not know the track "A Window to the Past" would begin with a recorder solo until the orchestra started playing the piece in the recording studio.
wWbW TIL that octopi, octopuses, and octopodes are all correct plural forms of the word octopus.
WkJR9 TIL - Scientists were investigating why thousands of dead fish would occasionally appear on the banks of an African river. They discovered that the fish were dying due to the huge numbers of hippos pooping in the water.
XDa8 TIL that the poor in Haiti have to resort to eating cookies made of dirt just to give themselves the feeling of being full.