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TIL the founders of Adidas had been members of the Nazi party

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D18oD TIL That New Zealand has an Army... and it looks exactly as fun, awesome, and friendly as a Kiwi Army should.
P1WO TIL during a deadly 2002 bridge collapse in Oklahoma, a convicted felon impersonating an Army Captain took control of the disaster scene for two days
4kDma TIL the first UPC-marked item ever to be scanned at a retail checkout was a 10-pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit chewing gum, purchased at the Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio, at 8:01 a.m. on June 26, 1974.
PYjYw TIL that a 2.85m statue of former President Bush stands in an Albanian town to show appreciation for US-led NATO airstrikes in 1999
4X6Lb Around 74,000 years ago, the Toba supervolcano erupted on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. It was the biggest volcanic eruption of the last 2 million years, unleashing 2,800 cubic kilometres of magma. That’s enough to bury the entire United States in a foot-thick layer of ash & rock.