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May 10, 2020

TIL that Nintendo can trace its origins back to the time of the Ottoman Empire and even ran brothels to supplement their trading card business.

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Mar 28, 2020

TIL, Lego HQ in Billund, Denmark has an underground vault containing every Lego set ever made.

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Mar 03, 2020

TIL The last mammoths died around 3,600 years ago, when the great pyramids of Giza were already 1,000 years old

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Dec 23, 2019

TIL a group gamers sent a port of Super Mario Brothers 3 to Nintendo in hopes of securing a license. Impressed, but uninterested, Nintendo declined but the gamers were so impressed by their work they went on to create their own studio, id Software, which developed Wolfenstein, Quake, and Doom.

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Oct 22, 2019

TIL that gargoyles on a 15th century church in Loire-Atlantique, France, now include Gizmo and a Gremlin from "Gremlins" and the xenomorph from "Alien." The characters were added when the centuries-old church was restored in the 1990s.

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Oct 22, 2019

TIL that gargoyles on a 15th century church in Loire-Atlantique, France, now include Gizmo and a Gremlin from "Gremlins" and the xenomorph from "Alien." The characters were added when the centuries-old church was restored in the 1990s.

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Aug 13, 2019

TIL in 1974, a lawyer wrote to the Cleveland Browns threatening to sue if their fans kept throwing paper airplanes at games, and got the reply 'Attached is a letter that we received on November 19, 1974. I feel that you should be aware that some asshole is signing your name to stupid letters.'

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Jun 28, 2019

TIL that, when the last woolly mammoths died out in 1650 BC, only about 4000 years ago. By that time, the pyramids of Giza were already a thousand years old.

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Jun 12, 2019

TIL that a pound of US quarters and a pound of dimes both equal twenty dollars.

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Apr 10, 2019

TIL that Pistachio Nuts are prone to spontaneous combustion if improperly stored or transported in large quantities due to a chemical reaction that continues to take place in the nuts even after they are harvested

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Apr 08, 2019

TIL That the "seam" on a USB is always supposed to point down (horizontal) or to the left (vertical) when plugging in.

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Apr 04, 2019

TIL The oldest recorded "your mom" joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet in 1976. The text read: “...of your mother is by the one who has intercourse with her. What/who is it?” There was no response on the tablet.

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