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TIL that Art Spiegelman, best known for the Pulitzer-winning graphic novel Maus, also created the Garbage Pail Kids line of trading cards

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Mepk7 TIL about the Great Papago Escape where twenty-five Germans successfully tunneled out of an Arizona POW camp near Phoenix. They built a raft, hoping to float their way down the Salt River, and eventually into the Gulf of California. Their plan failed when they learned the river was mostly dry.
9QX6 TIL that last year a group of scientists created a microparticle that, when injected, oxygenates the person’s blood-supply for 30 minutes.
P14w TIL Guantanamo guards beat a prisoner into brain injuries who later turned out to be an undercover guard who was taking part in a training exercise
5pv8 TIL Australia has a public toilet map and it’s part of the National Continence Program
0EO1 TIL in 1976, Queen released a song whose lyrics were in Japanese as a thank you to their fans in the country