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TIL that in 2019 the Topps trading card company released a set of baseball cards that also had Charles Martinet (Mario's Voice Actor : Card 171) and Ben Schwartz (Sonic's Voice Actor in the Movie : Card 173).

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Ab5n TIL that “Columbia” was a patriotic term commonly used to describe the United States in the 1880s. It’s why we have the “District of Columbia” and “Columbia University.”
R76n9 TIL almost all of the fruit, vegetables, and animals we eat are domesticated and ARE NOT found in nature. A few foods like some berries, nuts, and mushrooms are consumed in the same form they grow in the wild. Humans are "selectively breeding" species for more then 12,000 years.
1jZr TIL: The German word for “selfie stick” is deppenzepter, which roughly translates to “idiot staff”
KWYG TIL Bank of America tried foreclosing a couple’s home who paid for their home fully in cash. When the bank refused to respond to the couple’s dispute, they hired a lawyer and got the foreclosure dismissed. They then sought damages & when the bank didn’t pay, the couple sued and foreclosed the bank
bomE TIL that C. S. Lewis (author of The Chronicles of Narnia series) was an adamant atheist, until attending Oxford, when his closest friend, J. R. R. Tolkien (author of the Lord of the Rings trilogy) convinced him to convert to Christianity.