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TIL there’s a teddybear in every Dutch police car, in case something troubling happens to a child.

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bBl4 TIL that 58% of Russians don’t know who built the Berlin Wall, 10% think Berlin residents built it themselves, 6% think Western powers built it, and 4% think it was a bilateral agreement between the Soviet Union and the West
ePXb TIL that as the Titanic sank, someone unlocked the kennels holding all the passengers’ pet dogs, “leading to the surreal sight of a pack of excited dogs racing up and down the slanting deck as the ship went down.”
E15JX TIL that the Kantō region in Japan is real.
oBA9Y TIL in the late 1990's Activsion offered Tony Hawk $500,000 for his name rights in the Tony Hawk video game franchise. Tony Hawk turned down the offer & the video games went on to generate over $1.4 billion in sales worldwide.
OO9g TIL Hawaii’s largest-ever earthquake occurred in 1868, and the aftershocks are STILL being observed.