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TIL Hawaii didn't have mosquitos until 1826
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TIL "Jack & Diane" was supposed to have been about an interracial couple, but Mellencamp was pressured by the label to change itb
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TIL that to join the EU, Austria had to lift its blanket ban on members of the Habsburg family entering Austria because it was a violation of human rights
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TIL there is a phone booth sitting in the Mojave desert. It’s number is 760-733-9969 and if you call the number you will be ringed into a conference of other people.
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TIL Allied tanks were mired in the hedgerows of the French countryside. An American Sgt. came up with the idea to deconstruct Nazi anti-tank "hedgehogs" and re-weld them into crude brush cutters, mounted to the front of Sherman tanks. It was hugely successful and allowed Allied forces to break out.
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TIL Street Fighter II in 1993 eclipsed sales of Call of Duty in 2011 (adjusted for inflation)