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TIL that the game Oblivion has over a thousand characters, but only 13 voice actors.

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kBMm TIL in 1968 Japan, a car driven by bank employees was pulled over by a motorcycle cop claiming the car hadbeen riggedwith a bomb. The cop got under the car to defuse the device. Everybody ran when the car started to smoke. Then the “cop” just drove the car away. The 300M Yen robbery remains unsolved
Z8eMa TIL that hill valley from back to the Future was a set used in many shows including twilight zone, to kill a mockingbird and leave it to beaver. Just to name a few.
KZZB TIL two years after Paul Revere’s ride, 16-year-old Sybil Ludington undertook a similar ride to raise the local militia, but she rode twice as far as Revere. In the rain. And fought off a highwayman with a musket.
xjo TIL that the word ‘quite’ means 'very’ in American English, but means 'fairly’ in British English.
ENaV TIL that in 1937 the Nazis held an exhibition of art you should dislike (“Degenerate Art”), the work of artists such as Ernst, Kandinsky, Mondrian, and Picasso.