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pEp4 TIL that townfolk from a small German town duped over 200 neo-Nazis by tricking them into a walkathon that raised over $12,000 for an anti-Nazi charity.
9YJOB TIL: Ultima Thule was thought to have a unique snowman shape but once the spacecraft arrived it revealed an even stranger flattened gingerbread man shape
15rP TIL more Slurpee’s have been sold in Winnipeg, Manitoba than anywhere else in the world.
x6yDB TIL Famed voice actor Frank Welker (Optimus Prime, et al.) was credited with "Parrot Sounds (voice)" in the 1999 shark movie Deep Blue Sea.
p8d5e TIL Indian Maharaja Jam Sahib adopted 640 Polish orphans during WWII. He brought the children to the royal palace in Bombay, had a dormitory built for them, and brought in Polish teachers and chefs so the children would feel at home and "recover their health and forget the ordeal they went through".