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TIL that Nintendo had produced a physical toy version of duck hunt in 1976, a full 8 Years before the original game came out

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b9pjZ TIL about Yasuke, a former Mozambique Slave turned Samurai during the Japanese Hegemony and unification wars. He was well respected by the Japanese and was considered to have the strength of ten men, and was one Oda Nobunaga's most trusted warriors.
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