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TIL: SEGA stands for Service Games.. and was founded by Americans..

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D1aJJ TIL The first name recorded in writing is on a five thousand year old clay tablet found in what used to be Mesopotamia. It's a business receipt in which a man named Kushim signed for 29,086 measures of barley.
NXPYM TIL that because of the amount of time it saves, the washing machine has been called "the greatest invention of the industrial revolution.” Others have considered it a key driver of women’s liberation.
p8Xdp TIL Over 100 bronze Roman dodecahedrons "from the 2nd to 4th centuries AD" have been unearthed over the past three centuries. No written sources from the period mention these objects, and scholars continue to speculate about their mysterious purpose.
78LXL TIL around 1920, a man found 3 saplings growing in a row & grafted the central tree onto the 2 adjacent ones in a diagonal fashion to form the shape of the letter "N" in order to impress his girlfriend, Nellie. It was apparently successful as the couple later married. It's known as Nellie's Tree.
1a8nV TIL that Niue is a member of some UN specialised agencies (such as UNESCO, and the WHO), and is invited, alongside the other non-UN member state, the Cook Islands, to attend United Nations conferences open to "all states".