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The 2014 Japanese official website for Pokémon Art Academy for the Nintendo 3DS featured a gallery of images, one of which was a Pikachu with a Mario-inspired hat and a Piplup with a Luigi-inspired hat.

In the prototype version of Yoshi's Island, the entire concept of Kamek creating the bosses by enlarging regular enemies has not yet been implemented, so the bosses are simply already large creatures to begin with.

This allows the game to do something that was impossible to do in the final version, which is to have the already large forms of the bosses appear before the battle starts. The footage shows the approach to the Naval Piranha boss battle in the prototype, where tendrils emerge from the water and lure Yoshi in before the actual boss appears. While not shown in the footage, the tendrils also hurt Yoshi if he touches them.

While it is unfortunate that this had to be removed as it would no longer fit the concept in the finished game, it was replaced with the equally memorable Easter egg whereby Yoshi can defeat Naval Piranha before Kamek can enlarge it, skipping the entire battle.

In the kiosk demo version of Mario Kart DS, some of the paintings on the Luigi's Mansion track actually moved, shaking and bulging out as though trying to escape in case of the Boo paintings, and simply shaking in case of the Chauncey paintings, as seen in the footage.

This was removed completely in the finished version of the game for an unknown reason.

However, the functionality was restored when the track was brought back for Mario Kart 7, though with the alteration that all paintings in that version are Boo paintings and as such all of them move, instead of only specific ones like in the Mario Kart DS demo.

madotsuki but ummmm what if we gave her a long skirt and forced her outside ig

their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.

longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years

toxic flesh

has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.

lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion

largest genome of any shark

eats everything including moose and polar bears

This is because there are two parts to memories - their encoding and their recall. The encoding determines their availability, their recall determines their accessibility. The reason why trauma memory and childhood amnesia are different is in this distinction. Trauma memory is often encoded differently, bypassing to the limbic system where it is stored as intrinsic memory. It can’t be recalled because it was never encoded. Childhood amnesia, however, seems to indicate that the memories are encoded, but we lose access to them as we age. This is most likely due to the development of brain structures that fundamentally change our encoding and recall of memory as we get older.