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TIL Nintendo is over a hundred years old, having been founded in 1889 as a playing card company.

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b6Rdj TIL when Freud developed the concepts of the id, ego, and superego in psychology, the original German words he used literally meant "The it, I, and over-I". Id, ego, and superego were the words chosen by English translators
OooyR TIL bison hunters did more to defeat the American Indian nations in a few years, than soldiers did in 50 years.
4X9ag TIL that in 1960, Canada bought thirty MIG-21 fighter jets from the Soviet Union, pushing Canadian-American relations to the breaking point. In protest three beavers were executed by pistol on the lawn outside the State Legislature in Frankfurt, Kentucky.
rNNOw TIL The original John Madden Football (1988) took 3 years to develop due to John Madden insisting that each team have 11 players while EA was entangled in a legal battle with Bethesda Softworks. The game was known internally as "Trip's Folly" in reference to Trip Hawkins, the founder and CEO of EA.
74oX TIL to get revenge on fellow Boy Scouts who bullied him, a Tokyo resident mailed more than 500 boxes of soggy, smelly garbage including old underwear and rotten tea leaves to his tormentors, writing a random destination as the address with the bully’s return address in order to escape detection.