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TIL that SR71A "start carts" exhausted USA's junkyards of 400 cubic inch Buick V8 engines

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R55b1 TIL New Zealand kea birds can be taught to use touchscreens with their tongues.
kxWd TIL Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation raised $2.1 million for charity, and donated just $5,000 of it. $400,000 went towards legal fees, and $800,000 was filed under ‘other’
wJN6 TIL that during the filming of Blade: Trinity, Wesley Snipes smoked weed all day long. After calling the director a racist and trying to strangle him, he would only communicate with the director through post-it notes signing them, “From Blade”
WkjAA TIL that in the last 6 hours between the signing of the armistice to end WWI and it taking effect, 3000 soldiers were killed.
nWJ5P TIL Los Angeles was the first city in America to successfully embrace sushi. In 1966, a man named Noritoshi Kanai and his Jewish business partner, Harry Wolff, opened Kawafuku Restaurant in Little Tokyo.