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When I was young and installed my first Linux, I actually searched around as root if this was stored anywhere. But I never found it.
https://askubuntu.com/q/641049
TL;DR: it's supposed to send email to an administrator, but by default on some distros (including Ubuntu), it isn't actually sent anywhere.
I thought it's just a joke because I only had it on local PCs. Imagine my reaction when I actually got an email by an admin when using sudo on a network...