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TIL Nintendo owns the Seattle Mariners

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Oo1pL TIL Leonard Nimoy made a song about Bilbo Baggins, the bravest little Hobbit of them all.
E1kE0 TIL The city of Berlin, Ontario, changed its name in 1916 to Kitchener because of Anti-German sentiment. They very nearly called it Corona.
GYkXG TIL the very first US episode of Gordon Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares featured a restaurant owned by an actual mobster connected to the Bonanno crime family
rNdko TIL that Groucho Marx had several “last words” before his death. Some had thought it was “either I’m dead or my watch has stopped,” whilst others believed it to be “die, my dear? why that’s the last thing I’ll do!” His actual last words were “this is no way to live.”
x6jk0 TIL In 1930, Bernard Lyot invented the coronagraph that allowed total solar eclipses to be recreated at will. It is essentially a telescope with a small disk in the focal plane to exactly cover the disk of the sun like the moon would