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TIL about the Nissan S Cargo. (Yes, it looks like a snail)

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kOQRg TIL that a man, after eating Brazil Nuts, had unprotected sex with a woman who was allergic to them, transferring the proteins from said nuts and thus causing the first sexually transmitted allergic reaction
R5oYQ TIL that during the Oka Crisis in Canada, a Canadian soldier intentionally stabbed two children (14 and 4 years old) in the chest with a bayonet
0E6N TIL Before he became an actor, Vin Diesel once worked as a telemarketer selling light bulbs and mechanics tools. Doing that he managed to raise almost $50,000 and made his first feature “Stray” (1997).
E1PnP TIL Marcel Marceau, perhaps the world’s most famous mime, was a Jewish member of the French Resistance during the Nazi occupation of France. His own father had perished in Auschwitz. He used his skills as a mime to help keep children quiet while the Resistance smuggled them to safety.
8ewnK TIL that the British used to dock decommissioned ships in the harbor and use them as prisons. More Americans died on these ships during the American Revolution than in every battle of the war combined.