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TIL Bebop & Rocksteady were added to the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon because the toy company wanted more characters to sell

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9dp6 TIL that in Bangalore, India, the government shames property tax defaulters by sending drummers to makes noise and wave banners outside of their properties until they pay their taxes.
d8Vr7 TIL a French woman, Marie Belmont-Gobert, hid a British soldier in a cramped cupboard in her house from Jan 1915 to the end of WWI in 1918, despite German officers living in her home and socialising in the room the cupboard was in. She received an OBE post-war. Cupboard is in museum in U.K.
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nWy9B TIL that Eratosthenes, the man who calculated the circumference of the Earth, also calculated various dates of the Trojan war.