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TIL there is a town called Okay, OK

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awYbZ TIL of the 'raising of Chicago'. In the mid-1850s Chicago buildings were raised multiple feet to improve drainage and reduce disease outbreaks
yVXaa TIL that the green code from the movie The Matrix (1999) was inspired by a Japanese sushi cookbook.
Me8Wm TIL in 1959 a group of men transported a piece of iceberg from Norway to west Africa in a truck.
lgYA TIL because Brazil couldn’t afford to send its athletes to the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles. they loaded their ship with coffee and sold it along the way
Y7QOZ TIL that in addition to Kamikaze aircraft, Japan during WWII had manned suicide torpedoes called Kaiten. Once sealed in, the pilots could not unlock the hatches and the device would self destruct if the mission failed.