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TIL that the Japanese invaded India during WWII

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d85gZ TIL the novelization of the original "Star Wars" film was called "Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker" and was published before the movie was released. The novel included the first reference to Emperor Palpatine (who wasn't mentioned in the film), and various other discrepancies.
mxreY TIL in 2012 three researchers proved that many classic Nintendo games are NP-hard by developing a framework for reducing the 3SAT problem to any platform game. This means the question "given a finite level of a game, can the player move from start to finish?" is not computable in polynomial time.
epdbL TIL that 20% of scientific genetics research papers have errors due to Microsoft Excel's auto-formatting of gene names into dates
1Zar TIL Sherri Shepherd is against same-sex marriage, as her “faith prohibits such unions”, but has admitted to having “many abortions”
0wA7R TIL that in 17th-century Poland, wet bread mixed with spider webs was used to cure wounds. It may sound stupid, but it work, as the bread contained fungal spores, including penicillin and naturally produced antibiotic substances.