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TIL Nissan hired videogame maker Bandai Namco to create custom alert sounds for the 2021 Nissan Rogue and Pathfinder SUVs

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GYpAj TIL there's a 15,000 mile long hiking trail in Canada that goes from coast to coast.
b97mp TIL that the Roman Emperor Nero did not play the fiddle as he watched the Great Fire burn Rome. When the fire broke out he was at his villa in Antium, 35 miles away. When he received news of the fire he immediately rushed back to Rome to begin relief efforts.
4X0pR TIL about the book “How to spot a Jap” issued to US soldiers in China during WWII. In it, they were told the Chinese are “about the size of an American”, has even teeth and walk in strides while the Japanese are buck-toothed, shuffle and look as if “their legs are directly attached to their chests”.
W7MM8 TIL about panbabylonism, the belief that all religions of civilization is ultimately derived from babylonian myths including the genesis creation narrative and the genesis flood narrative.
eQJ5 TIL that Roald Dahl wrote the screenplay for the James Bond film ‘You Only Live Twice’