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TIL: Nintendo owns the rights to two pornographic movies.

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gr1R9 TIL the Nyah-Nyah Nyah-Nyah Nyaaah Nyaaah teasing song melody is used all over the world! (Ring around the Rosie tune)
wonM7 TIL about Genie, a feral child who was tied up in her father's bathroom for most of her childhood and never developed the ability to speak. Despite massive advances in Genie's social skills and non-verbal communication - Genie never learned how to acquire language after her rescue.
Zpgna TIL that in 1962, the Italian training vessel Amerigo Vespucci was hailed by American USS Independence, who asked who they were. After Amerigo Vespucci identified itself, the USS Independence replied: "You are the most beautiful ship in the world." The compliment was repeated 60 years later.
R7BGw TIL that government in Japan runs dating ads in which they tell the women what kind of stocking to wear and even at what angle to tilt your head when looking at a man to attract him
y6Yp TIL that the world’s oldest known complaint letter was written to a Sumerian copper merchant named Ea-Nasir almost 4000 years ago on a clay tablet: “You put ingots which were not good before my messenger and said: ‘If you want to take them, take them; if you do not want to take them, go away!’”