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TIL that Nintendo was founded back in 1889 almost 100 years before their video games. They started in Kyoto, Japan making hand-painted “hanafuda” playing cards, then at various points ran a taxi service, made toys, and even owned a "love hotel" before focusing their efforts on video games

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JZE4 TIL that Pinball was considered gambling and banned between the 1940s to 1976. It ended when enthusiast Roger Sharpe played it before a committee and called out precisely what he was going to shoot for, and then did so. The ban was lifted since he had proven it was a game of skill, not chance.
QNWEe TIL Studies have found that the amount of plastics that humans inhale or ingest results in a credit cards’ equivalent of microplastics in the bloodstream.
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R7lp9 TIL that in 1859 the sun caused a solar storm on earth.The storm was so powerful that aurora was seen as south as Mexico, and Telegraphs systems all over Europe and North America failed to operate.
1aY54 TIL that when David Bowie says "get back on it" on The Jean Genie, he's talking to the bass player who has just started playing the chorus one bar too soon. He liked it, so it stayed in the song.