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TIL the the Scion car company used to endorse extreme metal bands and held a yearly metal festival.

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ZpAEQ TIL Teruo Nakamura, a Japanese solider in WWII, fled to Indonesia in 1944. There he survived alone in the jungle as the believed that the war continued. Later, a pilot accidentally found his hut in 1974 and shortly after, he became the last WWII soldier to surrender (30 years after the war ended).
PYwWL TIL Russian 500-ruble bill features Argentinian Libertad boat. The graphic designer of the bill admitted he simply used the first photograph of a large frigate he had encountered on the internet
rkPd TIL there are only 13 active airships (blimps) in the world.
Z99a TIL that the author of Hatchet, Gary Paulsen, has seen shark attacks, saw his mother beat a potential molester to death in front of him, learned to shoot as a child on a naval boat, has competed in the Iditarod and a bunch of other insane stuff…
wDZW TIL Norway reserves the right to repurchase Orkney and Shetland (and its billions in oil reserves) for a fixed sum of gold and silver, worth around £800k