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TIL Nicolas Cage has already bought his grave. It’s a 9-foot pyramid in New Orleans.

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PYwwZ TIL in 1972, Nintendo launched the "Lefty RX", a remote-controlled car that could ONLY make left turns due to a deliberately cheap design. It ended up being a tremendous success, and influenced Nintendo focusing on fun over next-gen-tech in future video game consoles.
EG8w TIL Imgur was created by a redditor as a gift to reddit over 5 years ago.
4XlJg TIL engineers have been able to increase the damage resistance of an airplane's black box by 60 times thanks to studying the anatomy of a woodpecker's skull.
loPPK TIL that Costco sells over 100 million hot dogs annually, which is more than every MLB stadium combined.
GYbLQ TIL that Candy Land was created due to the polio epidemic. Eleanor Abbott, a victim of the disease, created it for children to play while they were recuperating.