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

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OGA76 TIL Two sailors died when trying to salute then VP Millard Fillmore (Roadside America)
e0kPL TIL that a Toddler’s life was saved by his aunt, after she noticed a white glow in one of his eyes in a photo- it was a cancerous tumour. From a photo album, his mother realised that the glow had been there his entire life. After 4 months of chemotherapy, the cancer went dormant.
66kw TIL Roland The Farter was a professional flatulist who was given a manor and 30-acres of land in exchange for entertaining King Henry II.
grab TIL that one U.S. Navy ship nearly killed FDR by accident… twice!
5VVnr TIL that in Australia's worst aircraft crash no Australians died. In 1943 the crash of a USAAF B17 Flying Fortress took the lives of 40 US servicemen leaving only one survivor. No other aviation incident in Australia before or since has cost more lives.