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TIL of Uniracers, a Nintendo published game by DMA Design, that got recalled, after Pixar sued for plagiarism because they copied designs from Pixar short "Red's Dream". This led to them being sold to Take-Two Interactive, where they later became the developers of Grand Theft Auto, Rockstar North.
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TIL Pope Pius II(1405–1464) was a prolific writer, known for being the only sitting Pope to author a memoir before Pope Francis in 2025. Besides that, he wrote several comedies as well as erotic poetry, and an erotic novel
TIL in 1957, the Blue Hawaii cocktail was created when a representative of the Dutch distiller Bols asked a bartender, Harry Yee to develop a drink using its blue curaçao liqueur.
TIL that Canada has several ridiclous names for some of its lakes, such as This Lake, That Lake, Another Lake, And Another Lake, Ugly Lake, Stupid Lake, Big Ass Lake, and P*ssy Lake.
TIL that Leonhard Euler was so insanely prolific that after his death in 1783, the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences had such a massive backlog of his unpublished papers that it took them nearly 50 years to finish printing them all.
TIL Hummingbirds are found naturally only in the Americas.
TIL that although G. B. Shaw's 'Pygmalion' does not end with Prof. Higgins and Eliza Doolittle together, every adaptation (such as the musical and film 'My Fair Lady') of the play does, because audiences want a happy ending. The play's producer told Shaw "My ending makes money".
TIL during the casting of Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995), producer Jon Peters hired Gary Busey to reprise his role as the villain unaware that the character was killed off in the previous film. Busey was later dropped but still earned $750K from a play-or-pay contract he already signed
TIL that Leonhard Euler was so insanely prolific that after his death in 1783, the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences had such a massive backlog of his unpublished papers that it took them nearly 50 years to finish printing them all.
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