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TIL "Project Fantasia" that the US tried to scare the Japanese in WWII with glow in the dark foxes.

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5VMWk TIL Ferdinand Verbiest created the first vehicle which moved under its own power in 1672 as an amusement for the Chinese Emperor Kangxi. The steam vehicle was 2 ft in length and built like a five-wheeled cart-like trolley
b9jVE TIL: The person on the 10,000-Yen banknote is Fukuzawa Yukichi, who was among the first Japanese to visit America in 1860, after the end of Japan's isolation period. He became known as one of the foremost experts on Western culture, and the college he founded, Keio University still stands today.
p8nJN TIL A church choir had a practice session starting at 7:25pm one evening in 1950, and by 7:27pm the building exploded. No one was killed as they were all running late.
7rxEX TIL that Kay Thompson, author of the Eloise children's books, was also a popular singer who had a young Andy Williams as one of her backups, and became "romantically involved" with him on tour, when he was 19 and she was 38.
VD78 TIL that Teddy Roosevelt was once shot while delivering a speech and instead of going the hospital he spoke for 90 minutes telling the crowd “Ladies and gentlemen, I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.”