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TIL that SEGA is short for Service Games

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9wQ6G TIL that this one stuntman, Takaiwa Seiji, was the lead-suit (protagonist's transformed form) actor for most of the Kamen Rider series from 1988 to 2020.
5Rb9 TIL Cahokia was the largest city in North America prior to the arrival of Columbus. It rivaled London at the time, and was only surpassed in the 1780’s.
x6ya5 TIL that ~131 US WW2 veterans pass away every day.
mxk1P TIL about Exploding Head Syndrome, a sleep/headache disorder in which a person may hear a loud, hallucinatory noise right before falling asleep/waking up. Despite the vivid name, it is completely harmless.
E19xV TIL that "On May 5, 1971, Scottie Dunning discovered a tiny male harbor seal pup on the shore of Cundy’s Harbor, Maine." After living in captivity, the seal pup now named Hoover "began to utter phrases such as: “Hello, there!” and “Come Over Here!” in a thick New England accent"