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TIL Within the first 3 months of 2013, UPS and FedEx owed New York City $2.8 million in parking tickets.

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MeNyb TIL that the House of Representatives briefly renamed the "french fries" in their cafeteria to "freedom fries" as part of a protest at France's opposition to a war on Iraq
76xP TIL dueling with wax bullets was once an Olympic sport
yQQ7a TIL There is an English actress and model born in 1993 named Hermione
J16bm TIL that in the United Kingdom, there is a section of a river called the Strid. It seems unassuming at hardly six feet wide, but at certain points the Strid reaches over 200 feet in depth. Air bubbles lowering the water's average density, you would sink like a rock into the violent currents below.
kO5v5 TIL after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japan built foldable submarine-launched naval aircraft to bomb U.S. western and eastern seaboards, the 18 I-400 class submarines stowed up to three Aichi M6A Seiran floatplanes, each could carry an 800 kg (1,800 lb) bomb 1,000 km (620 mi) at 475 km/h (295 mph).