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6Er7W TIL: In Japan a 63 year old fisherman and karate expert fought off a bear, then drove himself to the hospital
yVNxe TIL that Louis Coulon de Villiers was the only commander to make George Washington surrender, having defeated Washington at the Battle of Fort Necessity in 1754.
vReD TIL: There are 18.6 million empty homes in America, meaning you could give every person in Scotland around three houses in America, and every homeless American around six houses.
8ewGK TIL metal tube, invented in 1732, is what measures the speed of supersonic jets, all other airplanes, boats and even F1 race cars.
YO8G TIL that deer in the Czech Republic don’t cross into Germany, following the example of parents who learned to avoid the electrified fence there during the Cold War