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TIL, the best-selling book in Japan is 1985 was the strategy guide for Super Mario Brothers.

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QJY6e TIL that Henry VIII was sometimes called "Old Coppernose." He issued debased coins to fund wars and one coin was mostly copper with a thin layer of silver on top. The coin had a portrait of Henry and his projecting nose caused the silver to wear off first exposing the copper underneath.
4kera TIL Tracey Chapman performed her biggest hit Give Me One Reason 6 years before it's release on Saturday Night Live in 1989
0dNrA TIL that the United States severed direct diplomatic relations with the Vatican in 1867 in the wake of rumors of Catholic implication in the Lincoln assassination. Direct relations were reestablished in 1984.
OopXg TIL that the same car (a 1907 Contal Mototri) that finished the Peking to Paris race in 1907 finished the motor rally again in 2019.
Gx4g TIL that despite knowing that a ceasefire would occur at 11am, many Generals continued to send their troops into battle right up until the last minute. Hundreds of lives were wasted on the final day of World War I.