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TIL There is a large statue of Sonic the Hedgehog in a remote village in Japan. Local farmers purchased it from a closed SEGA theme park about two decades ago.

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WkgNX TIL a 42,000 year old foal was found entombed and in great condition in permafrost. It is "the best-preserved Ice Age animal ever found in the world,” according to Grigoryev, head of the Mammoth Museum in Yakutsk.
9Yo5M TIL that Napoleon Bonaparte's nephew, Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte was elected to be the first president of France in 1841. He staged a coup d'etat at the end of his term in 1851 and ruled as emperor Napoleon III till his death since the constitution didn't let him seek reelection.
rNwEw TIL that in 1986 William Goldman wrote a sequel to his famous novel (and screenplay) "Marathon Man."