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TIL The Triforce symbol from Legend of Zelda is the symbol of the Hojo clan in Japan

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l7M8r TIL that in 1797, conditions at Rugby School were so bad that the pupils staged a "Great Rebellion". The headmaster's office was blown up with gunpowder and troops had to be called in to restore order. The ringleader later rose to the rank of General in the British Army.
4XdkJ TIL that On Black Friday 2014, Cards Against Humanity replaced the game with a “Bullsh*t” box, on sale for $6. This box contained “literal feces, from an actual bull,”This was to protest to the Black Friday shopping where shoppers will literally buy anything on sale. They sold 30,000 copies.
x6Qo5 TIL that when Pokémon was being localised for the US, Nintendo of America staff proposed redesigns for "cute" Pokémon, including a tiger-like Pikachu with "huge breasts". Satoru Iwata refused to submit the designs to Game Freak.
Lk8Ap TIL that the first episode of 'The Ed Sullivan Show' - the show that gave America its first looks at Elvis, the Beatles, and the Doors, among other acts - is considered lost. What makes this extra tragic is that it is also the TV debut of the team of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.
ADxLw TIL of Planet Nine - A hypothetical, 10x Earth-sized planet within our solar system that orbits around the sun every 15k years. This hypothesis is currently supported by Jim Green, director of NASA's Science Mission Directorate and professor Tom Levenson of MIT.