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kJ7d TIL Donkey Kong, Mario, and Princess Peach are based off of characters from Popeye. Nintendo created it after they failed to obtain a license to make a Popeye video game.
Nxnb TIL that since 1980, Reed College in Portland, Oregon has offered an underwater basket weaving class.
RM8Q TIL that there was a large significant White Slave population in the Colonies that numbered at least 300,000 Irish prior to the 19th century.
VBkrk TIL that in 1957, the town of Pleasanton, Texas voted overwhelmingly to desegregate its public schools. The vote (and entirely peaceful subsequent integration of African American students) bewildered the press and gained national attention as it occurred around the same time as the Little Rock Nine.
rND5o TIL That as well as Warm and Cold blooded creatures, there's also a third type called Mesothermic to which some Dinosaurs may have belonged.