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TIL almost 80% of German casualties in World War II took place in Eastern Front

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16pjV TIL Canada's e-scooter share program use technology to help determine if a rider is riding on a sidewalk instead of the street based on vibrations. People who ride on sidewalks will be mandated education and then fined
1aQVd TIL that in 1985 the US’s Delta force and Seal Team Six were surrounded (guns drawn) by the Italian Carabinieri after the US forced an airliner to land at an Italian NATO base. This stemmed from the hijacking of an Italian cruise ship and the killing of an American by members of the PLO days earlier
9YOlr TIL Mozart and Salieri composed a cantata together. It was considered lost, but rediscovered in 2015 by a musicologist looking through archives.
9wxp7 TIL Jägermeister campaign "TGGD - TrinkGeld Gehört Dazu / trans. Tip belongs to it" wants, that Germans get used to the concept that "tip everyone you pay" while clubbing or drinking at a pub/bar, this includes cab drivers as they bring you there, tip higher, tip every time.
yVMw TIL that the pilot of the only enemy aircraft to ever bomb the lower 48 was invited back to the town he tried to burn and made an honorary citizen.