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TIL that the inventor of the Game Boy was originally Nintendo’s janitor; the President of the company happened to walk by and was impressed by a toy he created out of boredom, leading to an illustrious career

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wEEM TIL that Sinbad and Arnold Schwarzenegger improvised a lot of their banter in the movie “Jingle All the Way.”
JW7k TIL that adult luna moths have no mouths and therefore cannot eat or drink, as they live for just one week and have only one goal: to reproduce.
R7wlQ TIL Nigeria still has 160,000 annual deaths due to AIDS, while in Swaziland more than 1 in 4 adults has it.
d8VyE TIL, the U.S once had a Camel Corps for the military and over 1000 were imported. After the Civil War the experimented ended and as result small feral herds existed with the last sighting in 1891
wLx1J TIL Sir John Francis Davis served as Governor of Hong Kong and was a renowned scholar on Chinese history and culture. Davis sent an armed force to capture ports and occupied the Canton factories to secure British rights of entry