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TIL Henry Johnson, a WWI veteran, saved his friend from over 20 German soldiers by himself by using his rifle as a club and then proceeding to attack the rest with his bolo knife.

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eKyD TIL: The quintessentially 40’s-mid 60’s American futuristic Jetsonesque architecture (think Back To The Future, bowling alleys, diners etc) which includes monuments such as the “Welcome to Las Vegas” sign and the Seattle “Space Needle” is known as “Googie”
WkNN4 TIL in 1908, a meteor exploded over Siberia and flattened over 770 sq miles (2000 km) of forests. Though it disintegrated ~3 miles above Earth, it created an airburst with 1000x more energy than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Incredibly, only 3 people were killed.
670W TIL there is a place called Two Ocean Pass at the continental divide, one stream goes to the Pacific, one to the Atlantic. A fish could make a 6,000 mile freshwater journey from one ocean to another through this creek.
JAWk TIL that Toyota was founded by a man named Akio Toyoda, but named Toyota because of Japanese superstition: writing the symbols “Toyota” requires 8 brushstrokes, a lucky number in Japan, while the 10 brushstrokes of “Toyoda” is an inauspicious sign.
e0MZb TIL that in 2002, a researcher found that the average 8-year-old British child could identify 80% of Pokémon, but only 50% of common wildlife species