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TIL that Chinese Checkers was invented in Germany

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D1lPv TIL about a French diplomat, Bernard Boursicot, who worked at the French embassy as an accountant in Beijing in 1964 who had a 20-year affair with a Chinese actress, who turned out to be both a spy and a man in drag. The diplomat claims not to have known that his lover was actually a man.
oRB0A TIL That from 1984 to 2000 Virginia celebrated "Lee-Jackson-King Day" which celebrated Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and MLK all on the same day
P1OZG TIL the male gharial crocodile's hollow bulbous nasal protuberance starts growing over the nostrils around age 11.5. The bulbous snout tip enables hissing that can be heard 75 metres (246 feet) away. The gharial is the only living crocodile with visible sexual dimorphism
Ejg7 TIL Misfits’ frontman Glenn Danzig was offered the role of Wolverine in X-Men as his short, muscular build is close to the hero’s original appearance in the comic books.
VM9mG TIL that Ford F-Series Trucks are involved in more fatal accidents than any other vehicle in America, but the 4th cheapest vehicle in the US to insure.