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YLDG TIL the original Super Mario Bros 2 game was too hard and unpopular overseas, so Nintendo redeveloped an existing Japanese game (Dream Factory: Heart-Pounding Panic) and turned it into what we know as Super Mario Bros 2, hence the weird, new characters and game play.
D1WaP TIL George R. R. Martin only wrote four episodes of Game of Thrones. He was originally planned to write one episode per season but stopped after season 4 to focus on other writing (A Song of Ice and Fire).
6RYX TIL a Sweedish study concluded that the United States was one of the most racially tolerant countries in the world.
epR4L TIL that the United States has had at least one Nobel prize winner every year since 1936
kJZjB TIL that in 1989, a group called "The Breeders" caused a medfly infestation in California to protest spraying of the insecticide Malathion, devastating crops and costing $60 million in eradication efforts. The state ceased this spraying in response.