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TIL of the existence of a popular UK character called Mr Blobby. Who has been in television since 1992 and has a No. 1 single.

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GA1D1 TIL about the British Pet Massacre, in which 750,000 pets were killed in anticipation of food shortages in WWII.
oBJ6W TIL Between 2011 and 2013, more cement was consumed in China than what was used across the entire US over the course of the 20th century
ddpj TIL Canadians attempted to build a ship out of ice during WWII.
J1w81 TIL of the U.S. Navy's Nasty-class fast patrol boats, which were Norwegian-designed and used for covert operations during the Vietnam war
5jEk TIL in Nov. 1944, Japan launched 9,300 bombs carried by balloons to the USA. These killed six civilians, crashed into a farm and caused a short circuit in power lines supplying electricity for the nuclear reactor cooling pumps in the Manhattan Project’s production facility.