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TIL that only Nintendo's founder knows what their name means.

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rw6o TIL Amazon’s daily record for orders was more than 26.5 million items worldwide across all product categories, which is a record-breaking 306 items per second. That day Amazon sold enough copies of the “Fifty Shades” trilogy to create a stack 445 times taller than the Space Needle.
9Rr TIL There is a village in Greece whose residents use a language made up entirely of whistling.
PB1n TIL that the former Mayor of Las Vegas, Oscar Goodman, spoke to a group of fourth graders and when asked about his hobbies, he said “Drinking Bombay Sapphire Gin”. When questioned about the statement, he replied with “If they didn’t want the answer, the kid shouldn’t have asked the question.”
mOVx TIL licence plates in the Canadian Northwest Territories are shaped like polar bears.
dD8wB TIL that queen ants can live up to 30 years