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TIL the Nintendo Switch sold 17.8 million units in its first year alone. That is more than Nintendo’s previous console, the Wii U, sold in its entire lifetime.

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69GKZ TIL about the Mandan, or "Welsh Indians." A tribe of Native Americans with a European appearance and a language that sounded like Welsh, they were at first believed to have been the descendants of the legendary Welsh explorer, Prince Madoc, who was said to have sailed to America in the 1170s.
mnBO TIL that Catalan activist Enric Duran took out 68 loans from a total of 39 banks between 2006-2008, with no collateral, and no intention of repaying, and used the money to finance activist movements, as an act of ‘financial civil disobedience’
yQE9e TIL On Oct 30, 2005, Rosa Parks, civil rights pioneer, was mourned when her casket was placed in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol for two days. She was the first woman and the second African-American to lie in state there. She was the 31st person and the first American not a U.S. government official.
P18ME TIL Don Cheadle's father was a US congressman for nearly 25 years
wo6D1 TIL the last EF5 tornado was more than 11 years ago, a record longest period without any confirmed EF5 tornado