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TIL Mario Cart was almost called Mario Race Wars

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96Om TIL Herpes was considered unimportant until the 1970’s when a drug company purposely stigmatized it in order to create a market for a drug.
6EGWm TIL The giant silverware company Oneida Limited started out as a 19th century free love comune. Both older men and women were chosen to be sexual mentors to adolescent members of the opposite sex. And they also made silverware.
8eYKG TIL recording sound on magnetic wires was used before magnetic tapes in the early 1900s, and use of magnetic wires persisted into the 1960s for recorders designed for stealth use, including one with a microphone disguised as a wristwatch
j6JMj TIL In 2007, John Galvan and two others were serving a life sentence when he saw a MythBusters' episode "Hollywood on Trial." which debunks a cigarette igniting gasoline. In Chicago, 1986, John was forced to sign a false confession, saying that's how the fire started. They were exonerated in 2022.
AD4Wd TIL the James Webb telescope is so powerful that it can see the heat signature of a bumblebee at the distance of the Moon