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

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4kO7g TIL During the American Revolution the British captured Penobscot Bay and the Colonies sent an armada to take it back. All 44 of ships of the American Armada and hundreds of men were lost in the attack, making it the largest naval defeat in American history until Pearl Harbor, 162 years later.
VMKJG TIL that elephants have a prehensile penis. It can be controlled like their trunks, and is used to scratch the belly, swat flies, balancing and gripping objects.
j64dv TIL, Paul Stanley of rock band KISS was born half deaf with Level 3 Microtia, leaving him without an ear canal in his right ear.
rwPw TIL Hugh Jackman gets bodybilding advice from The Rock, and The Rock refers to Jackman as ‘Wolverine.’
N7Rk6 TIL that in 1859 a 2 hour telegraph conversation between Portland and Boston was able to be had without the use of any battery power. This was due to an aurora borealis generating enough electric current in the telegraph wires.