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TIL in Japan, when you buy a car, you have to prove you have somewhere to park it

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X7aD TIL historically the Jews were never slaves in Egypt, and therefore Exodus is an archetypal myth about the process of revolution.
DRav TIL that there are 30+ different stories from all over the world, that detail a World wide flood.
8eNRb TIL Nintendo doesn't make their games completely in house and that they keep refusing to say who makes the game until the end credits.
ONE7 TIL the number of devices connected to the internet now exceeds the number of people in the world
ANYAx TIL that the first commercially successful video game - an Atari Pong cabinet at Andy Capp's Tavern in Sunnyvale California in 1972 - got a complait for beeing "broken" when it was jammed out of order with quarters due to its unexpected popularity