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TIL pillbugs (AKA roly polies) are not, in fact, bugs at all. They’re crustaceans, “closely related to lobsters, crabs, and shrimp.”

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kJBBe TIL although French toast was a popular dish generally served in U.S. railway dining cars in the early and mid-20th century, the Santa Fe Railway was especially known for it. Most of the railroads provided recipes for these and other dining car offerings to the public as a promotional feature.
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OXnL TIL Canada bought a license to produce a fighter the US no longer wanted, and it ended up being so successful as a ground attack aircraft that nobody was able to catch one during more than 20 years of NATO exercises. They won first or second place in nearly every exercise they participated in.
evEb TIL in 1986, at the height of apartheid, Glasgow, Scotland changed the name of the square where the South African consulate-general was based to Nelson Mandela Place, forcing the South African attaché to have to write this address if they wanted to receive mail.
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