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TIL the rarest motorcycle in the world was found behind a brickwall in Chicago and has engine technologies well ahead of its time. The “Traub” is still running to this day.

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xaG7 TIL that since 2009, Iceland had a financial crisis: through the power if referendum, they ousted the local gov’t, declared they were not going to repay the banker’s loans, jailed those responsible, and wrote a new constitution without an political parties. (Democracy, you’re doing it right)
W7GJ8 TIL that 'The Most Dangerous Animal in the World' was a 1963 exhibit at the Bronx Zoo. It featured a mirror and text describing the dangers humans pose to life on earth.
gMVN7 TIL in pharaoh ant colonies, worker ants regulate the amount of worker ants and reproductive ants by eating larvae of the type that is in surplus
nWk8o TIL Abraham Lincoln had a cousin who served in the Confederate Army as a private named Abraham B. Lincoln. He deserted from the confederate army in 1864.
nvDW TIL - In 1962 the US government planned terrorist attacks on US cities to start a war with Cuba.