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TIL that Nintendo has such a large cash reserve it could lose $250 million every year and wouldn’t go bankrupt until 2052.

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A4n7 TIL: The sound made by the Krakatoa volcanic eruption in 1883 was so loud it ruptured eardrums of people 40 miles away, traveled around the world four times, and was clearly heard 3,000 miles away.
VBmv8 TIL John Morales, the actor who voiced McGruff the Crime Dog, has been in jail for a decade. His legal troubles began in 2011.
lo0P7 TIL In 1942 there was a man called "the phantom barber", who would sneak into people's homes in Mississippi at night and cut their hair
OGaEa TIL the gold ball at the top of a US flag pole is called a ‘finial ball’ and traditionally contains a razor blade, match, and a single bullet.
QJ8Od TIL in 1929, German doctor Werner Forssmann performed the first human cardiac catheterisation on himself. After ignoring his boss and tricking a nurse into helping him, he inserted a catheter into his right arm before calmly walking to the x-ray department. He was later awarded with the Nobel Prize.