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TIL that Luckenbach, Texas, which was made famous in a Waylon Jennings song, has a population of 3.

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XEM1R TIL Seagulls have been attacking live Whales in Argentina - pecking open their skin to eat the blubber when the whales surface for air.
KOwAR TIL that a toilet break once sank a submarine. When the captain of U-1206 was unable to operate the toilet, he called in an engineer, who flipped the wrong switch, causing water to flood in and filled the ship with chlorine gas. The ship surfaced, was spotted, and was attacked and scuttled.
XEmED TIL Italian courts ruled that restaurants have to tell customers if they serve frozen food or it’s considered fraud.
0waBy TIL that ottoman kalkan shields were used from central asia to eastern europe (translation alert!).
e0Da4 TIL the arrow symbol (→) is a rather recent invention. The first arrow symbols were used sporadically in the 18th century and arrow symbols only became widely used in the late 19th century. Pointing hand symbols (☞) were used for centuries before the arrow symbol was invented.