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TIL archangels are not the highest rank of angel, in fact they are second-lowest. This misconception stems from John Milton's "Paradise Lost"

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epORE TIL Sega was founded by an American man. A veteran of the Korean War, David Rosen remained in Japan and founded Rosen Enterprises, which would go on to merge with another Japanese company and become the gaming powerhouse.
EEO0 TIL Alfred Nobel invented dynamites. And when he was mistakenly declared dead in 1888, newspapers published obituaries that stated that “the merchant of death is dead.” Ashamed to leave such a legacy, he left the money he made from dynamites to celebrate humanity; thus created the Nobel Prize.
69Vom TIL the first internationally available game to be released for the Nintendo Wii was not "Super Mario Galaxy" or "Wii Sports", but "Barnyard", a game based on the animated children's movie of the same name.
V89p TIL: When Paris was liberated in 1944, British and American commanders wanted only white soldiers be involved in the leading French unit, despite the french army being only 40% white - all black soldiers were taken out of an available unit and replaced by white ones from other units.
wgaY TIL that in 1382, a French bookseller named Nicholas Flamel claimed to have transformed lead into gold after decoding an ancient book of alchemy. True or not, historical records show that Flamel did come into considerable wealth around this time, and donated his riches to charity.