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TIL Canadian infantry brought over 1000 of "The Airborne Folding Bicycle" on D-Day, 1944, to travel greater distances than on foot.

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xVVQb TIL a Tokyo national garden employee let in about 160,000 foreigners for free because he was afraid of charging them the entry fee
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