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TIL 15% of all riots in Canadian history started because of a hockey game

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woV87 TIL - In 1948 the Mahindra car company struck a deal with Willy's Overland Corp., makers of the original WW2 MB 1/4 ton utility trucks, to make a model for the Indian market. This would eventually lead to the feud with Jeep-Stellantis over similar looking vehicles.
5Yd7p TIL Almost 2/3 of Americans never left the country. Only 36% of Americans have passports According to the State Department.
5VRPB TIL Çeşm-i Bülbül is a Turkish glass blowing technique named after a nightingale’s eye due to comparisons made to the bird's occular organ patterns with the glass blowing technique
VBoOQ TIL That when Jeanette Rankin took her seat as Montana's Congresswoman in the United States House of Representatives in 1917, she became the first woman ever elected to sit in a national parliament. To date, she is also the only woman ever elected to represent Montana in Congress.