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TIL that GIMP, the free open source image manipulation software, is mainly developed by only 6 people working at night after their day job.

p8DEG Today I learned that "Mundial Ronaldinho Soccer 64" is actually a bootleg version of "International Superstar Soccer 64" and since I'm so used to the Ronaldinho intro the actual one seems cursed (iconic part starts at 1:06)
Y7VbP TIL about the Pit of Despair, an apparatus used in widely-condemned experiments that isolated young monkeys in a dark, smooth tank with sloped sides and a curved base. The monkeys were left isolated and hopeless in the dark for months, supposedly to induce and study depression.
j6ZEE TIL that Gert Frobe, the actor who portrayed Auric Goldfinger in James Bond, was a former Nazi. Because of this, Goldfinger was banned in Israel until a Jewish man informed the Israeli Embassy that Frobe had hidden his mother and him from the Nazis.
rR4Dw TIL that Carlo Kaiser had a decade long career as a professional soccer player, during which time he managed to hide the fact that he was a bad player through various techniques, such as faking injuries, changing teams, and befriending journalists who would write fake articles about him.
P1Yrg TIL that less than half of all societies kiss with their lips, according to a study of 168 cultures from around the world and a professor of anthropology at the University of Nevada Las Vegas found that only 46% use lip-to-lip kissing in a romantic sense, excluding things like parent-child kissing.