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TIL There is a a village in Hungary founded by Communist Greek refugees who left Greece after the civil war.

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Me9Pm TIL in 1919, the U.S. Army organized a convoy of 81 vehicles from Washington, DC to San Francisco, CA. The trip took 56 travel days, broke 9 vehicles, had 21 casualties and convinced observer Dwight Eisenhower to champion the Interstate Highway System, which he signed into law 37 years later.
5V5Er TIL a tradition in some of the Southern US is decorating trees with bottles. This custom was brought over by captured Africans and it has origins from the Kongo. One belief is that these captured evil spirits by luring them inside due to the attractive color of the bottles.
gpWX TIL that 17-year-old California teen, Max Wade, stole Guy Fieri’s $200,000 Lamborghini from a San Francisco car dealership by rappelling down from the roof and driving out the front door.
D18Kr TIL that there were 104 new models of mobile phones introduced in 2010, more than in any other year
vnEr TIL that the Shell Corporation started out in 1833 as an import-export business specialising in oriental seashells. They started shipping oil over 50 years later but the name stuck.