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TIL Gabe Kaplan, well known from the show Welcome Back Kotter, is a successful professional poker player

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n5MP TIL that the creator of the Nintendo Game Boy was originally hired by Nintendo as a maintenance man.
GYgMJ TIL the Krupp company, presently known for kitchen appliances, is a 400 year old German Merchant Dynasty, and was a weapons manufacturer from the Thirty Years' War until the end of WWII.
LQ0ev TIL In 1588, Elizabeth I of England’s Navy defeated the Spanish Armada and forced their remaining fleet to sail around England, back to Spain where many ships crashed along the rocky shores of Ireland. On Elizabeth’s orders, thousands of surviving Spaniards were massacred on the beaches of Ireland.
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ZpXGB TIL that "Cheech" Marin is a nickname derived from Chircharron - a fried pork rind snack