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TIL that Toyota once made military trucks for the Japanese Imperial Army.

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VPP0 TIL that the vast majority of vegetarians and vegans eventually return to meat.
nek5r TIL Ryan North (Marvel writer) once got stuck in a skate pit with only "his dog Noam Chompsky, an umbrella, a leash, a t-shirt, and a pocket computer" after the rain had made the pit slippery. When he asked Twitter users for help, they found a way for him to combine those items that let him escape.
gVa9 TIL that Pope John XII either died during sex with a married woman or was beaten to death by her husband, among many other scandalous acts he performed (affairs, toasting to the devil, ordaining a ten-year-old boys as a bishop, etc., etc., etc.).
A7ew TIL 57% of the men mobilised in World War I died
VM47B TIL until 2018, being fed with only bread and water was an available punishment in the US Navy for enlisted personal