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TIL that Soos from Gravity Falls can read Japanese.

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P5QZ TIL that Street Fighter II cost $69.99 in 1992; in 2013 dollars, that is $116.18
R7498 TIL the oldest living Alligator, "Muja" in the Belgrade Zoo, not only survived WW2 (where the Belgrade zoo was almost totally destroyed) but also the 1999 NATO bombings during the war in Serbia, 54 years later. He is estimated to be at least 80 years old. But there are no records of his DOB.
PlMJ TIL that the US bailout was significantly more than $700 Billion and that the pledge actually reached $11.7 Trillion.
ZebG TIL a UK judge ordered a criminal to be released as at a height of 7'2" he was too big for prisons.
0BG5 TIL the man that shot the attacker at Canadian Parliament in 2014, Sgt-At-Arms Kevin Vickers, did so by diving through a doorway, flipping around to face upwards, and firing at the shooter while still in mid-air. He is reported to have said “I put him down”.