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TIL that the 1963 return of the village of Elten from the Netherlands to West Germany caused a bizarre 'smuggling' operation. Businessmen parked hundreds of trucks full of butter in the town on the night before the handover, dodging German import taxes when the border crossed the goods the next day

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Br0lb TIL about Ed Reeves, a US marine who survived the Korean War despite having shrapnel in his legs, being shot in the head, and getting beaten with rifle butts by the enemy soldiers. Despite all of this, he was able to crawl out onto the frozen Chosin Reservoir, where he was rescued.
N7Re6 TIL black stones in Go are manufactured to be slightly larger compared to the white ones, to compensate for the optical illusion of white objects looking bigger when placed adjacent to black objects.
e0VAE TIL in the first draft of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the Holy Grail was discovered at Harrods department store, at the Holy Grail counter.
epW05 TIL that the vampire bat doesn't suck blood, but instead makes a small cut on its prey and laps up the blood with its tongue.
Do9e TIL Ocean thermal energy conversion, a technology invented at the end 19th century, has the potential to satisfy twice the global electricity demand without affecting the temperature of the ocean or the world’s environment.