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TIL: “Shrek” means ‘fright’ in Yiddish

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OoNYL TIL of the 1976 Chowchilla bus kidnapping. Three men kidnapped 26 kids + their bus driver + forced them into an underground bunker. They never gave their $5 millions random note to the police; they took a nap after the crime + when they woke up the victims had already escaped + returned home safely.
R486 TIL pavement damage is proportional to the fourth power of the vehicle weight, so a 9-ton truck does over 3000 times the road damage of a 1-ton car.
Pp4L TIL that Shingo, a small village in Japan, claims to be the burial place of Jesus Christ and his younger brother Isukiri
PABE TIL that internet censorship is pervasive in South Korea including blocking of sites critical of the government, pornography, sites related to North Korea, and copyrighted material
LkvN0 TIL That Timothy Treadwell of the documentary "Grizzly Man" was eaten by a bear on Oct. 5, 2003, 2 days after Roy Horn of Siegfried and Roy was mauled by a Tiger