› added 8 years ago

487

TIL Mario was born in Mushroom Kingdom, but Luigi, his twin brother, was born in Brooklyn, NY.

Read more wikipedia.org

via ift.tt

D8ke TIL in Germany, it is illegal to contact/email an employee on their vacation days.
dDKR9 TIL that the "Lost City of Atlantis" was invented by the philosopher Plato, as a fake enemy for Athens that lost favour of the gods and was sunk in to the sea.
nQ47 TIL in 1997, when the computer Deep Blue went against Gary Kasparov in a game of Chess, Deep Blue made an unpredictable move in the 44th turn. Kasparov attributed this to Deep Blue’s “superior intelligence.” It was actually just a bug.
ZpYM4 TIL People brought their kids to watch Alien in the theaters (many apparently thinking it was going to be something more akin to Star Wars)
Ook1g TIL The red-lipped batfish (Ogcocephalus darwini) lives in the Galapagos. It has large, pouting red lips, uses its fins to walk or scurry along the sea floor, and has an illicium in the center of its head that resembles a human nose. The standard lifespan is 12 years.