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TIL about ancient takeout in the city of Pompeii.

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QJOee TIL about Freddish, the distinct language Mister Rogers used on-air
Oopm1 TIL Volkswagen put out an electric car in 1984 called Golf citySTROMer. It had a range of 50 KM and a top speed of around 100 KM/h. Only 100 exemplars were ever produced until production ceased in 1985. Trivia: the word "strom" in German means "current".
4Xkvb TIL that the SR-71 Blackbird was purposely designed with gaps in the body and would leak fuel, upon reaching high speeds the body would heat up and the gaps would close.
yVZWl TIL there was a hostage crisis at Berkeley , California in 1990s where the accused (who was suffering from a schizophrenic episode) demanded trillions of dollars from the federal government in his bizzare list of demands.
0jWN TIL US Army Chaplain Charles Liteky is the only Medal of Honor recipient to have given his award back to the Government, he also left the priesthood, married a nun, and became a fervent social justice activist.