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TIL Jason Voorhees has been unmasked and featured a different looking face in nearly every Friday the 13th film

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5VAbr TIL that after the Allies invaded North Africa in WW2, the Germans planned to use the powerful French navy to counterattack. The occupied French responded by scuttling their own fleet, destroying 77 ships and damaging many more. Ships burned for days, and the harbor was heavily polluted for years.
Rdv4 TIL world’s rarest insect is 15cm-long “tree lobster” that lives on 1,844 feet high spindle of rock in the middle of Pacific, forms monogamous bonds and was considered extinct until 2001
rRw44 TIL Blockbusting is a technique whereby realtors would buy a home on an all-white street, sell or rent it to a black family, and then buy up the remaining homes from whites at cut-rate prices, then sell them to black families at hefty profits. This is later made illegal by the 1968 Fair Housing Act.
a8Pwo TIL When the fork was first introduced as an eating implement it was normal for people to have their own knife and fork made which would be kept in a special box called a cadena. Whenever someone threw a dinner party or a feast all the guests would bring their own cadenas to eat with.
b67w0 TIL The heaviest Japenese person ever recorded is Yamamotoyama Ryūta, world champion sumo wrestler weighing in at 584 pounds