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TIL that the software company Niantic, makers of Pokémon GO, was named after a wooden ship that sailed to San Francisco during the gold rush, was ran aground, converted into hotel, burned down and got buried and eventually rediscovered in 1978 during excavations next to the Transamerica Pyramid

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