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TIL Free Willy died a year after being released into the wild

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EgZMP TIL that Nintendo tried to shut down not just a Super Smash Bros. Melee tournament at EVO 2013, but the whole event itself, which was a charity fundraiser event. Nintendo quickly reversed the decision after backlash.
LJvZ TIL JFK carried one of his injured crew members through 4 miles in water to a small island after a Japanese ship attacked the vessel he was commanding.
9YOym TIL that the term “mental retardation” which we now deem “inappropriate”, was a medical term for people with intellectual impairments, invented to replace terms that were more offensive. The American Association on Mental Retardation introduced it to be a neutral term in 1961.
KYMY9 TIL that Natalie Portman could not be cast as Juliet in the 1996 film because it would make Leonardo DiCaprio look like he was preying on a young girl
44g TIL The little pegman from Google Street View turns into an Astronaut if you drop him anywhere inside the Kennedy Space Center