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TIL Nintendo started as a Card Company in 1889 and launched Hanafuda Cards and these cards were actually used in Japan as a replacement of Gambling Cards as they were banned by Japanese Government

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4aQb TIL Tim Duncan grew up in the US Virgin Islands where he was gearing up for the 1992 Olympics as a competitive swimmer until Hurricane Hugo destroyed the island’s only Olympic-sized pool. The only alternative was to swim in the ocean, and Duncan was afraid of sharks, so he turned to basketball.
eDYk TIL 96 percent of ancient redwoods, some of the tallest and oldest trees on the planet, have been cut down
X0JN8 TIL; 1 out of every 50 people in the US has an unruptured brain aneurysm.
4XB4w TIL that in the 1964 movie A Distant Trumpet, many of the Navajo Native America went off script and would joke around in their language. No one bothered to translate what they said until the 2009 documentary Reel Injun did just that.
XmpD TIL that back when NYC subways ran on tokens people would jam the slots with paper so they could suck the tokens out with their mouths. This was refered to as “Token Sucking” and some token booth attendants even tried to deter this crime by sprinkling chili powder in the slots.