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TIL Nintendo partnered with the Minnesota State Lottery to develop an expansion for the NES console that allowed people to buy lotto tickets from their home.

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pYe4b TIL Duke Kahanamoku was not only a 5-time Olympic medalist in swimming, but also a pioneering surfer who is credited with popularizing surfing around the world. Later in life Kahanamoku was elected to serve as the Sheriff of Honolulu, Hawaii from 1932 to 1961.
D1pND TIL the will of P.L. Travers (writer of Mary Poppins) specifically forbid all future American adaptions of her work
MenW8 TIL that potatoes were actually originally cultivated in peru
8wb TIL that Häagen-Dazs doesn’t mean anything; the name originated when the founder sat at his kitchen table for hours streaming together nonsensical Scandinavian sounding words.
k5Pe TIL that the president of the World Chess Federation believes that chess was invented by aliens