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TIL of the Triforce. A 2002 arcade board based on Gamecube hardware and jointly developed by Sega, Nintendo and Namco.

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woo9Y TIL you are allowed to take your own personal parachute on a commercial flight as long as it meets certain requirements
d8nYK TIL that neon nail polish is not legal in the U.S. This is because the FDA has not approved the chemicals used in them and because companies do not want to register these new chemicals since it would be too expensive. This is why neon nail polish available in the U.S is actually imported.
N7oy6 TIL of Griselda Balco, Colombian drug lord of the Medellín Cartel and pioneer in the Miami cocaine drug trade and underworld during the 1980s through the early 2000s. It has been estimated that she was responsible for up to 2000 murders while transporting cocaine. She was shot and killed in 2012.
9YO7M TIL the education minister of Kazakhstan deemed SpongeBob SquarePants too violent for children, labeling the titular character a "self-absorbed hooligan" who "regularly inflicts violence on others in his community and seems to enjoy what he does."
5YmeP TIL it's actually possible to shoot arrows around corners/obstacles