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TIL: Nintendo owns the rights to two pornographic movies.

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16g7V TIL that Copenhagen's only ski hill, CopenHill, was built on top of one of the world's cleanest waste incineration plants
V7pm TIL that the term “grandfathered in” originated from Jim Crow laws which allowed men to be exempt from literacy tests and poll taxes if their grandfather was eligible to vote prior to 1866, effectively ensuring many illiterate white men could still vote, while black men couldn’t.
NKvE TIL around 70,000 years ago the volcano Toba in Indonesia erupted and covered the earth with so much ash the sun was dimmed for 6 years. The population of early humans neared extinction and some studies indicate there were as few as 40 breeding pairs.
epdgb TIL New Mexico has an official state cowboy song; "Under New Mexico Skies"
LWap TIL when Winston Churchill was warned by the German foreign minister that if WWII were to occur, the Italians would be on the German side, he responded: “That’s only fair - we had them last time.”