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TIL Raccoons are an invasive species in Central Europe and Japan

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6Egmw TIL The infamous Contra game cheat code "UP, UP, DOWN, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT, RIGHT, B, A, START" was created by Kazuhisa Hashimoto to give himself a leg up in the game, but forgot to remove the code when the game was shipped to masses.
dVQj TIL: Archaeologists uncovered 800 year old letters in Russia. Included was schoolwork by a young boy, in which he slacked off and doodled pictures of himself taking part in adventures.
N7a71 TIL Fortunate turns of weather saved the Japanese town of Kokura from the atomic bomb, twice.
m7wp TIL that Alexis Neier, the Bling Ring member who went to jail for robbing Lindsay Lohan, was incarcerated in a cell next to Lindsay Lohan’s
4kB8b TIL Jimmy Kimmel Live! Has not recorded live since 2004 because censors were unable to properly bleep a barrage of swearing from actor Thomas Jane