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TIL that instead of ice cream trucks, Japan has baked potato trucks.

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WkvRN TIL In the 1970s, the New Mexico Dept. of Game and Fish introduced 93 gemsbok (an African gazelle) to the White Sands Missile Range. Today, they number 3,000-6,000.
4km4a TIL the biggest surrender in war history since WWII was on December 16 1971, when the chief of Pakistani forces, General AA Khan Niazi, along with 93,000 troops, surrendered unconditionally before the Indian military. India repatriated all of them by 1973.
6PyJ TIL at the 68th Academy Awards, Apollo 13 lost Best Visual Effects to Babe. That’s right, the talking pig.
NoYQ TIL that horror/supernatural writer Anne Rice’s birth name was Howard Allen Frances O'Brien. Her parents changed it at age six, it after she introduced herself in school to a nun as “Anne,” a name she found pretty, rather than give her birth name out of embarrassment.
O0ye TIL of a German currency called Chiemgauer that was designed to oxidize over time, decreasing the worth of the note. This is to promote local spending and decrease hoarding of the notes