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TIL BBC does an online edition in pidgin English

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GAWK1 TIL about Maria Spelterini, who in 1876 became the first (and only) woman to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope. She crossed several more times with increasingly difficult handicaps: peach baskets strapped to her feet, blindfolded, and with her wrists and ankles shackled together.
m11wo TIL Nintendo's Mario was created with a mustache to remove the need to animate his mouth and was labeled Italian because mustaches were attributed to Italians at the time.
pZA TIL that Crash Bandicoot was almost changed to “Wuzzle/Wez/Wezzy the Wombat” or “Ozzie the Ottsel” by Universal, but remained Crash because of Naughty Dog threatening to leave the production otherwise.
6Ey97 TIL Gas actually expires sitting in your tank for too long. If your car is sitting for several months during quarantine without much use, the ethanol in your car's gasoline will start to attract water and corrode your cars fuel system. This can be alleviated by using a fuel stabilizer.
j6E6E TIL that Rwandan cricketer Eric Dusingizimana created a Guinness World Record by batting for 51 hours continously (inclusive of food break) at an indoor cricket nets in Rwanda in order to raise funds to build an international cricket ground in Rwanda