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

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0dZ7M TIL In 1944, Helen Martini was hired as the Bronx Zoo's first female keeper after successfully raising 3 tiger cubs. She was famous for treating animals in her Bronx apartment-sometimes despite the complaints of neighbors-including gorillas, marmosets, baby deer, antelope, squirrels, and skunks.
D4xJ TIL in 2011 researchers let 100 paper planes go 23 miles above Germany. Some have since been found in Canada, USA, Australia and South Africa.
41G6 TIL in 2008 Monty Python decided to start their own Youtube channel. They uploaded HQ videos of their sketches which in only a few days resulted in a 16,000% increase in DVD box set sales.
GYm6Q TIL that after adding up federal, state, and local taxes, San Francisco residents have the 9th highest highest marginal tax rate in the world
VML9Q TIL Dennis Richie, who along with Ken Thompson, created the C programming language in the 60s, the most influential language in history, as well as Unix (THE operating system behind MacOS and Linux), died a week after Steve Jobs in 2011. His death was ignored due to media coverage of Jobs' death.