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TIL the British painted their cows with stripes during WWII to avoid car accidents during blackouts

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6E4DY TIL J.R.R Tolkien's first identifiable Middle-Earth character was a Half-Elven Mariner named "Eärendil", who came from his poem "The Last Voyage of Eärendil" written in 1914.
awKVM TIL during WWII Mounds candy bar operated a small fleet of ships that transported coconuts from the Caribbean and reported on Nazi ship movements to the US Military.
N7k7E TIL that due to the structure of Planet Earth, there are actually subterranean mountains some 410 miles down below the surface, with some being taller than Mount Everest.
wLkEP TIL Gangster Henry Hill (Ray Liotta's "Good Fellas" character was based on him) was put in the Federal Witness Program. However, after multiple relocations the Feds finally kicked him out because he kept getting drunk and telling his neighbors who he really was.
VBY50 TIL During production of The Godfather, James Caan was known to hang out with Carmine Persico, aka "The Snake", a notorious mafioso and later head of the Colombo crime family. Government agents briefly mistook Caan, who was relatively unknown at the time, as an aspiring mobster.