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TIL a Danish ex-Jagercorps operative drove a post-apocalyptic 1979 Camaro through the war-torn streets of Sarajevo to deliver food to starving children during the Yugoslavia War.

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EgrOp TIL that "Elefantenrennen" (elephant racing) is the German word for one truck passing another truck
GYYwG TIL that although outlawed in 1911, the ban on the Chinese practice of footbinding only began to be enforced six years ago.
Bgrkb TIL that Algeria’s national anthem “Kassaman” was first written by poet Moufdi Zakaria on the wall of his prison cell using his own blood after he was arrested and tortured during the Algerian independence movement
WklmA TIL that “The Bone Wars,” a fierce rivalry in the 19th century between two paleontologists involving bribery, fraud, and theft, concluded with one of the scientists donating his brain in hope that it would be bigger than that of his rival.
w1EJ TIL Stephen Hawking can have a normal more “modernized” voice however he chooses to keep the robotic voice as it is the voice he has come to identify with