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TIL There is a Village in Japan named Fox Village and it is Full of Foxes that run around and play together.

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b9lep TIL John Priest survived the Asturias foundering (1907, damaged in collision), Olympic and Hawke collision (1911), Titanic sinking (1912, hit iceberg), Alcantara sinking (1916, torpedoed), Britannic sinking (1916, hit mine), and Donegal sinking (1917, torpedoed).
VXNG TIL that in 1985 five Americans - fans of the University of Texas - were arrested in front of the Vatican for displaying the ‘horns’ gesture with their hands.
E1gYd TIL Many appliances have a ‘Sabbath Mode’ to allow them to be used by Shabbat-observant Jews on the Shabbat and Jewish holidays.
Rwlw TIL when a Virginia school board tried to ban “To Kill a Mockingbird” as immoral, author Harper Lee wrote a letter asking if the board members were literate and donated money to enroll them in the first grade.
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