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TIL the quickly drying Colorado River’s #1 outflow of water is to feed cows

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Lk4kP TIL of the German general Ferdinand Schörner, who at the end of World War II abandoned his army group to fly to Austria and personally surrender to the Americans, all to avoid capture by the Soviets. The Americans handed him to the Soviets.
m1PnE TIL that Communist Romania hated the Dracula story but was becoming dependant on Western tourism. A local functionary in the county of Bistriţa managed to trick the authorities into letting him open two Dracula themed hotels, one based on the inn that Jonathan Harker stays at in the book.
N871 TIL that people drive on the left side of the road in the UK because during violent feudal times right-handed swordsmen preferred to keep to the left in order to have their right arm nearer to a potential opponent.