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TIL that the Russian Army started wearing socks this year.

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1VDP TIL James Cameron clashed with his British production crew on the set of Aliens in part due to their regular tea breaks, which threatened the movie’s release date.
GKg TIL In Portugal there is an ancient city submerged in water, but during dry spells the water levels go down and you can see it. It’s called Vilarinho Da Furna
rNJN1 TIL that Temptations lead singer David Ruffin died in a West Philadelphia crack house in 1991. His family claim he had $40,000 in cash on his person at the time.
9edr TIL In Norway they publish their citizen’s annual tax returns online. If you accesses someone’s tax return, that person will receive a notification that someone’s checking on him.
0dRdy TIL about the expulsion of the Turks from Crete. Once composing over a third of the Islands population, the Turkish Population on Crete was expelled and exchanged in 1898 following ethnic violence and the Greco-Ottoman Wars, leaving the island in Greek hands.