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TIL of Captain Citrus, a fictional mascot based on Captain America from the Florida Department of Citrus, a state body tasked with promoting Florida's orange industry. Created in 2011 as "Ollie the Orange", Florida paid Marvel around $1 million in 2014 to redesign and publicly promote the character.

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XEZpD TIL Vlad the Impaler once repelled an attempted Ottoman invasion by making a forest of wooden stakes piled high with Ottoman corpses. According to Chalkokondyles, a contemporary Greek historian, there were over 20,000 people in his "Forest of the Dead"
lo4or TIL of Arthur John Priest, also known as “the unsinkable stoker”, who avoided death on The Titanic, The Britannic and three more maritime disasters.
Zpeop TIL The Tocorón prison where the Tren de Aragua gang originated, has hotel-like amenities such as swimming pool, nightclub, children play area, and even a zoo
VaMk TIL treadmills were originally a punishment used to harness human power on a giant wheel used to grind grains; hence the name “treadmill.”
69VYJ TIL there are an estimated 950 TRILLION invasive quagga mussels in Lake Michigan.