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TIL that Baskin Robbins is called “31” in Japan.

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wLn9J TIL of Ousland Borge from Norway, who in 1995 Attempted to cross the Antarctica alone on skis and had to abandon the trip due to frostbite. Undeterred, he returned the following year and successfully crossed 2845kms in 64 days alone, with a 178Kg Sledge and reaching 3400 meters above sea level.
J1a5v TIL Nolan Bushnell, the inventor of Pong, also gave us “Showbiz Pizza”, aka “Chuck E. Cheese”
OoeZ4 TIL; In 1504, Christopher Columbus scared the natives of Jamaica to continue to provision him and his hungry men by successfully predicting a total lunar eclipse. When the moon turned red, showing his God was ‘inflamed with wrath", the frightened community quickly agreed to his request.
GAVnJ TIL tumbleweeds are a public health menace, damaging houses, causing car accidents, and stoking wildfires
neXK7 TIL in 1943, Stanisława Leszczyńska, a Polish Catholic and professional midwife, was arrested by the Gestapo for aiding Jews. Sent to Auschwitz, she was assigned to work at the camp’s “maternity ward” and spent the remainder of the war delivering three thousand babies in unthinkable conditions