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TIL that Mexico is officially known as the United Mexican States.

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oBlXK TIL Despite its Historical Significance, the Release Date of Super Mario Bros in North America is Unknown
gMjn4 TIL multiboxing in gaming can be traced back to as far as April 1992, with the TinTin++, a MUD client made up of 700 lines of C code and which allowed playing and botting multiple characters. The Merc (MUD) developers discussed a programmatic way to detect multiboxing on Usenet in 1993.
paO8 TIL that the battle of Cannae was so utterly devastating that Rome declared a day of mourning because there was no one in the city who was not either related to or knew someone who had died.
oR1DA TIL people with blue eyes indicate a lack of melanin. Eye color is directly related to the amount of melanin in the front layers of the iris. People with brown eyes have a large amount of melanin in the iris. It's believed blue eyes are can be traced to one human being. Darker eyes help reflect sun.
616J TIL in order to capture the Generation X demographic, Coca Cola created an off-beat, existentialist soda in the mid 1990s. They named it “OK” because that was the only word more universally recognizable than “Coke.”