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TIL that France is the country with the most roundabouts in the world with 42,986 roundabouts throughout the country

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evR5 TIL in 1992, a team of game developers used a white puffball as a placeholder graphic while they designed their game’s protagonist. They grew fond of the puffball, and decided to keep him rather than replace him with a real character. He became the iconic character Kirby.
kL6g TIL that in the UK there is a high court judge known as Mr. Justice Mann
N7Ob TIL That the small amount of toothpaste you use to brush your teeth with is called a “nurdle.”
awGgZ TIL On May 13, 1862, self-freed slave Robert Smalls quietly maneuvered a Confederate ship full of fellow slaves and their families, through confederate lines and surrendered the ship over to the Union army and went on to become the first black man to captain a United States ship
xVZ91 TIL that on the island of Melanesia, natives there reenact US military parades and made a fake runway with fake airplanes to pray for the return of a US soldier by the name of John Frum so that he could bring them cargo filled with industrial blessings such as medicine, guns, and canned goods.