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TIL: Because Nintendo owns the Seatle Mariners, there is a 3DS app that allows you to order food direct to your seat

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ZEOY TIL in 2001, IT at UNC decided to do a server audit. They realized that they could not find one of their best performing servers. Eventually resorting to following the physical cabling, they hit a wall, literally. The server had been buried behind a wall during remodeling for over 4 years.
69LWZ TIL Chicago’s first permanent non-indigenous resident was a trader named Jean Baptiste Point du Sable
MeK8A TIL a golden chamber buried under a mountain in Japan contains water so pure it can dissolve metal, and it's helping scientists detect dying stars
GYdAJ TIL South Korea put a ban on Japanese cultural imports following WWII and wasn't lifted until 1998. But Nintendo found a way around the ban by partnering with Hyundai and rebranding several of their products including the classic NES, which was sold as 'Hyundai Comboy' in the country.
womNJ TIL 5-star hotels in Asia are required to offer free toothpaste to guests. This requirement does not apply in the US, where even some prisoners have to pay for toothpaste at the commissary.