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TIL Washington State was once known as “Columbia”; which fully explains the naming of the Canadian province “British Columbia”

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D19Gp TIL That sign spinning is an actual sport.
0d09y TIL that in 1969, Honduras and El Salvador, who already had extreme tension, faced off in the 1970 FIFA qualifier. Game 1, won by Honduras, led to Salvadoran rioting, and Game 2, won by El Salvador, led to Honduran riots. After border skirmishes, this led to a four-day war known as the Football War.
X0AaE TIL about the Toyota War, which took place in 1987 in Northern Chad and on the Chad–Libya border. It takes its name from the Toyota pickup trucks, primarily the Hilux and the Land Cruiser, used to provide mobility for the Chadian troops as they fought against the Libyans
e0DN5 TIL Halle Berry's stunt double in Catwoman was a man. Hawaiian-born Nito Larioza was the same height/skin color and wore Red Lipstick and a cat suit for the filming
QRD9 TIL that George Washington once said that “Overgrown military establishments” under any form of government are “Inauspicious to liberty” and “are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty”