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

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Z8AKa TIL The house of Gavrilo Princip, assassin of Franz Ferdinand, was destroyed in WW1. It was then rebuilt as a museum and was then destroyed during WW2. Afterwards it was rebuilt, only to be destroyed in the Yugoslav Wars. It was again rebuilt in 2015.
W7gEB TIL your old social media posts can reveal more than you think – even if they're years old. We all have those cringe-worthy Facebook rants or questionable tweets from years ago. But did you know that even seemingly harmless old posts can offer a surprising amount of insight into Personalities
9Yyp7 TIL Mosquitoes are the only creatures responsible for the deaths of more humans than humans themselves.
mRmp TIL that homosexual black swans form temporary threesomes with females to obtain eggs and then driving away the female after she lays the egg.
LQ0lZ TIL that the first presentation of Tourette syndrome (a neurological disorder characterised by the presence of motor and vocal tics) is thought to be in the 15th-century book Malleus Maleficarum, which describes a priest whose tics were "believed to be related to possession by the devil".