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TIL that Nintendo sent shipments of the SNES at night to avoid theft by the Yazuka.

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Nv7E TIL that the story of the US army giving native Americans blankets laced with smallpox is a lie.
DMAg TIL the first US Warship to be named after a black man was named in 1943 for sailor Leonard Roy Harmon. Harmon worked serving food to officers, one of the few jobs available to black sailors. At the battle of Guadalcanal, however, Harmon deliberately exposed himself to enemy fire to save a shipmate.
nexZP TIL Burger King Russia offered free Whoppers for life to any woman who got pregnant by a World Cup 2018 player. The company later apologized.
QJnva TIL France maintains the largest Exclusive Economic Zone in the world, largely from many tiny overseas territories. It covers approximately 8% of the total surface of all the EEZs of the world, while the land area of the French Republic is only 0.45% of the total land area of the Earth.
7r1Xx TIL that during WWII, Turkey had agreed to export an extremely large amount of chromite to Nazi Germany (partially contingent on what Germany would ship to them). To stop the shipments, the Allies 'pre-clusively' purchased much of the ore, even when they did not need any more of it.