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TIL that a VIN (vehicle identification number) actually stands for something and not just a random set of numbers.

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kEY4 TIL During the WWI fight for Belgrade, Serbia, German troops encountered a very stiff resistance, so German Field Marshal August von Mackensen erected a monument to the Serbian soldiers who died defending Belgrade, saying, “We fought against an army that we have heard about only in fairy tales.”
8AwZ TIL the show Dinosaurs ended with the dad causing the apocalypse in one of the eeriste ending to a childrens TV show ever.
P174O TIL the man who invented the chiffon cake was named Baker
GkM1 TIL in 1970, Hunter S. Thompson ran for sheriff of Aspen against an conservative, ex-military Republican incumbent. Thompson shaved his head totally bald, so he could refer to the competing party, who was sporting a close-cropped crewcut, as ‘my longhaired opponent’ in speeches and interviews.
0NJM TIL - Before Orbitz.com was a travel site it was the site of a soft drink that had balls of jelly suspended in it.