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TIL there is a kingdom within the Republic of Indonesia.

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dDvxQ TIL the New Zealand Army's Maori name, Ngāti Tūmatauenga, translates to "Tribe of the God of War"
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e0D8b TIL that during testing of The Legend of Zelda in 1986, the testers complained that the game was too confusing and that they kept getting lost. As a result of this, Shigeru Miyamoto decided to make the game even harder by starting off the player without a weapon.
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