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TIL That Nintendo was first and only company Koji Kondo ever applied to.

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jNwvR TIL that while modern child-proof lids were invented in 1967, archaeologists discovered a container nearly 20 years later that was opened using a similar twist-off method. The vessel was found in the Mayan ruins of Río Azul in Guatemala and dated back to 500 BCE. It contained chocolate.
wLEXM TIL: The poorest President in the world was former Uruguay President Jose Mujica, who only received a monthly salary of $7.5k. He gave away 90% of his salary and only declared $1.8k as his wealth in 2010, his 1987 Volkswagon.
QJA5d TIL that during World War II, the US Navy’s Third Fleet and Fifth Fleet were largely composed of the same ships. The change in Fleet numbers was used to designate which Admiral was in command at the time ( Halsey or Spruance) and to make the Japanese think there were twice as many ships.
wmyM TIL The voter turnout for US presidential elections hasn’t breached 62.8% in the last 100 years
vP7 TIL that Neil Gaiman wanted to make a movie of “Anansi Boys”, but the moviemakers wanted to change the black characters to white and remove any magic (in a story about Gods and magic), so he refused.