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TIL the Gameboy had a sonar add-on for fishermen, that could locate fish up to 65 feet deep. It also included a fishing mini-game

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7rNmr TIL in November 1942, the Holy Cross Crusaders beat the Boston College Eagles. The Eagles had scheduled a presumptive victory party at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Boston, but cancelled it after the loss. Therefore, they were absent when the club caught fire, killing 492 people.
WBKA TIL The Mona Lisa has no clear visible eyelashes or eyebrows. In 2007, a French engineer used high resolution scans to show that the painting was originally painted with clearly visible eyelashes or eyebrows and they gradually disappeared over time, possible due to overcleaning
gM0x8 TIL the mafia used to control the artichoke industry in NYC, ultimately leading to Mayor LaGuardia banning the vegetable in 1930
69lwm TIL that two Pakistani Prime Ministers were assassinated in the same park, 56 years apart, and were treated unsuccessfully at the same hospital.
XEMeR TIL Marlon Brando was only 47 years old when he starred in The Godfather (1972). It required meticulous make-up work by Dick Smith to transform him into the elderly patriarch Vito Corleone.