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TIL that Satoru Iwata, while CEO of Nintendo, spent 3 weeks debugging Super Smash Bros. Melee so that it released on time

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yrgw TIL that in 1977 a Caucasian woman found out she was designated in her birth certificate to be “Colored” in the state of Louisiana because her great-great-great-great grandmother was an enslaved African woman; she had 3/32 Negro blood in her and State Law declared anyone with 1/32 Negro blood, Negro
KPRQ TIL a school was locked down and a student was arrested when the secretary rang a student who’s voicemail greeting was the “Fresh Prince of Bel Air” theme song and she misheard “shooting people out side of school”
9Q4X TIL that the U.S. accidentally dropped four hydrogen bombs on Spain in 1966
jNbej Today I learned an Adze is a sideways Axe
yQvbw TIL archeologists are using LiDAR to survey the South American rainforests. The results have helped reveal over 60000 previously undiscovered ruins, part of a much greater civilization than previously thought.