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TIL that the “Sheng Long Hidden Character” in Street Fighter II was a Mistranslation Myth

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6nZ8 TIL A Canadian university gave out free condoms with notes attached promoting safe sex. These were later recalled because the staples used to fasten the note had punctured the condoms
Bg79y TIL The Blood-stained Pink Chanel suit of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy wore in JFK’s assassination remains uncleaned and is currently stored inside a climate-controlled vault in the National Archives and will remain "out of public view" until at least 2103.
9lvG TIL “Step on a crack…” originally ended with “and your mother will turn black.”
bda4 TIL: A company in Hong Kong once attempted to release a version of Tamagotchi where you would take care of gang member, instead of feeding and playing with him, you’d make him smoke, drink alcohol, and enter knife fights.
a8gW9 TIL that dingos are considered by many to be a distinct species, Canis dingo. Making it the only native terrestrial animal in the order Carnivora.