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TIL Nintendo owns the patent on the “+” shaped d-pad design.

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VMGAk TIL that Charlize Theron's abusive father was shot dead by her mother, in self defence. This happened on a night when he sprayed bullets into Charlize's room door, which Charlize and her mother had held shut for protection. Upon their miraculous survival, her mother immediately shot him down.
8eEM8 TIL during his two years playing major league baseball John Miller hit a home run in his first ever at bat, and his last ever at bat, and those are the only two home runs of his entire MLB career.
4kVmN TIL Rust doesn't cause tetanus and is relatively harmless in small quantities
mx1wP TIL that in Beijing every citizen that has more than 11yo have to plant at least 3 trees per year to help the nature to grow more fast
J18Gm TIL that the 1942 Rose Bowl was played in North Carolina because of the fear of a Japanese West Coast attack