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TIL, the word Nintendo can be translated as "leave luck to heaven"

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XE1LQ TIL of 21-year-old Lieutenant Zvika Greengold, an Israeli tank officer who fought in the Yom Kippur War for 30 hours straight, destroyed up to 60 enemy tanks (swapping his own every time he sustained damage), and fooled the Syrians into believing they were facing a company sized force.
J45j TIL the word “dude” was 19th century slang for a dandy and was likely shortened from “doodle” as in Yankee Doodle Dandy.
roJy TIL that Buzz Aldrin once punched a conspiracy theorist in the face after he was accused of faking the moon landing
REnQ TIL: There are 3 pages in a play called “Sir Thomas More” that were written by “Hand D.” Hand D is in fact… the only surviving handwriting of William Shakespeare.
N7bPM TIL in 1959 a white man from Texas disguised himself as a black man and traveled for six weeks on greyhound buses. After publishing his experiences with racism he was forced to move to Mexico for several years due to death threats.