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TIL the first ever game to be given an Everyone 10+ rating is Donkey Kong Jungle Beat

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d8epj TIL that the submarine resembling a Lotus Espirit, from the Bond film The Spy who Loved Me, went unclaimed for 10 years in a prepaid storage unit. When its lease ran out, a buyer bought the unit for less than $100, including the submarine. In 2013, the submarine was sold at auction for £550,000.
ODOY TIL the FBI will reward $10000 to anyone who reports people who shoot lasers at planes.
xWv0 TIL a hot dog stand in the center of the Pentagon was rumored to be the target of a Soviet missile strike during the Cold War because the Soviets reportedly thought it was the Pentagon’s most top secret meeting room, and the entire Pentagon was a large fortress built around the hot dog stand.
awm4o TIL that John Lennon wrote I am the Walrus just to mess with people trying to find meaning in his songs
AlK7 Today I learned that the price of admission for a zoo in 18th century England was a dog or a cat, which were fed to the lions